Oh, I see. That is more sensible. Regular polling, IME, happens when you're trying to "keep abreast" of a decision making process that you are not directly inv

Oh, I see. That is more sensible. Regular polling, IME, happens when you're trying to "keep abreast" of a decision making process that you are not directly involved in. Say you are the SME for data security and there is a discussion which could involve you but presently does not. You initially pay attention, but work on some other tasks in the background and poll on the discussion to see if there is anything that would affect you. The danger happens when you start thinking that everything could affect you and you spend more time keeping up to date on what everyone else is doing rather than doing stuff yourself. Eventually the pendulum swings the other way and you stop paying attention to anything, until Something Happens and If Only You Were There, and then you start paying attention to little things, a few times, again. And the cycle repeats itself.