Honestly, your entire comment could be summed up as "meetings at my company aren't treated with respect, and therefore no meeting is useful." The thesis of the

Honestly, your entire comment could be summed up as "meetings at my company aren't treated with respect, and therefore no meeting is useful." The thesis of the article is that we need to fix meeting culture, and that starts with our acknowledging that meetings can and should be productive and meaningful; raising our expectations of what meetings can be; and then engaging in appropriate change. Yeah, that's really hard. But if you start from the assumption that meetings aren't work, as is common in the tech community, then nothing will ever change.