I think it was kind of silly for PG to suggest that a programmer's dislike of meetings is somehow greater than everyone else's. I've worked in several fields, I

I think it was kind of silly for PG to suggest that a programmer's dislike of meetings is somehow greater than everyone else's. I've worked in several fields, I haven't met anyone that either liked meetings, or felt that they were productive enough to warrant the amount of time that the organization spent on them. I'm pretty sure that we all hate them equally. There is nothing special about programmers that makes them not like meetings more. That being said, I agree that people involved in intellectually rigorous or highly technical work are probably affected more by any type of interruption than someone working on something more simplistic. So, perhaps the programmer's dislike of meetings is more legitimate, even if it isn't more intense.