I'm not sure the article argued all meetings are bad. I've worked in a lot of places where non-technical managers stick random crap in my calendar all day long

I'm not sure the article argued all meetings are bad. I've worked in a lot of places where non-technical managers stick random crap in my calendar all day long. You know, the kind of place that if two devs actually try to discuss an issue it ends up with 1 hour locked in a room with the expectation some winner will emerge. But that doesn't mean that a meeting about the context of some customer problem is a dud. It's a large part of the reason that product team exists. I rarely got those meetings. More of them, less of the pointless ones please. :)