Indeed, daily standups are the worst for so many reasons. First of all, everyone's just focused on what they're about to say to justify their employment, and no

Indeed, daily standups are the worst for so many reasons. First of all, everyone's just focused on what they're about to say to justify their employment, and nobody's paying attention to what the others have to say, which was ostensibly the whole point. The only one paying attention is the manager/lead, whose real, not so secret job is to make sure nobody's slacking off. The second is that productivity in a creative occupation just doesn't work that way. We're not factory workers assembling widgets on a conveyor belt. Einstein didn't give fucking daily updates on his theory of relativity. No, we're not Einstein, but daily updates ensure that we're not thinking meaningful deep thoughts, instead giving in to short-sighted thinking like a starving beggar looking for their next meal.