The Core #9: Meetings are for decisions
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A meeting is not a habitat. One should not live in them.
If it doesn’t end with a decision, it wasn’t a meeting, it was a group hallucination with a calendar invite.
Most things can (and should) happen asynchronously: status dashboards, shared docs, nods of digital agreement, all help you get focused work done. Synchronous work is fine too, just don’t call it a meeting if you’re actually getting something done. That's called "working with people".
And if someone invites you to a meeting with no clear purpose? Ask. If they can’t tell you, don’t go. You’re not an NPC in the main character's calendar.
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