Most meetings are just status updates that should be emails
This hill is unclaimed. Nobody is willing to die on it. Yet. First blood pending.
- Pay, and you hold it.
- Anyone can dethrone you for more.
- Every claim stays on the record.
No claims on the record.
The other side
A standup where someone mentions the vendor contract slipped, and two engineers realize they have both been building the same adapter for a week. That correction takes seconds out loud. In a thread it surfaces days later, if it surfaces at all, because nobody reads past the first line. The updates are the excuse. The collisions found while giving them are the product.
Tell me when this hill changes hands.
One email per change of hands. Unsubscribe link in every one.
Adjacent hills to die on
Productivity culture is a scam that manufactures more work
Office dress codes are class gatekeeping disguised as professionalism
Success is 90 percent circumstance, hard work is a myth
A mental health day beats pushing through burnout
Taking your full lunch break makes you more productive, not less committed
Burnout is the system working exactly as intended
More work hills, all of them, or find one worth $1 of your convictions.