My take is that if the work other people are doing isn't interesting, you shouldn't be at the same meeting. If you can't learn from what they're saying, don't

My take is that if the work other people are doing isn't interesting, you shouldn't be at the same meeting. If you can't learn from what they're saying, don't need to know it, and can't contribute, then you shouldn't be there. This is why we use feature crews as a subset of the team.