Most workplaces shape our habits in the same direction. Over time we become used to producing more things because output is easy to see and easy to measure. Emails are sent, documents appear in shared folders, updates move through chat channels, and posts accumulate online. Each new piece of activity creates a small signal that work is happening, and those signals add up to a reassuring sense of progress (especially for remote workers...) Because of that, producing more often

The modern workplace has a simple reflex: When something needs attention, we schedule a meeting. Sometimes that is exactly the right instinct and as you probably know at other times it is simply the easiest one. A useful question to ask is not “Do we need to talk about this?” The better question is “What kind of work needs to happen?” And guess what?,  some work requires a meeting. When the goal is sense-making , conversation matters. When there is disagreement , people need