I'm serious. Politics are a good chunk of the job, meetings is a major place for that. What happens there can have dramatic effects on how long something takes and therefore on the "produced output per unit of time." I've been at it for 13 years now and embracing that has had positive results on my well-being and career. 🥹

We make a lot of sausage in meetings. Brainstorm ideas and figure out what the challenges will be. Having all five or six people there at once is much more efficient than taking back the forth to each one individually.

There are status update meetings, but those are so other people know what you're doing so if it effects them they can work with it.