I agree with you that meetings are mostly a waste of time, and at the same time most people do not invest much time in communicating effectively. Because of th

I agree with you that meetings are mostly a waste of time, and at the same time most people do not invest much time in communicating effectively. Because of the later, meetings become necessary to extract information or get questions answered timely because back-and-forth exchanges occur painfully slow over email. Email could eliminate most meetings if people bothered to invest time in anticipating questions and preempting them. Providing clarity and insight rather than vagary. But they don't, thus we have meetings. 99% of the time the person asking for the meeting can even be bothered to write an agenda or give you any opportunity to prepare. At best you get vague subjects like "discuss stuff". I'm even starting to see this laziness appear in search results for answers to obscure questions being buried in 15 min long YouTube videos which end up being screen captures with some middle school AV club quality title sequences because that's easier than writing. But my original remarks were in regards to story telling.