One of the things I like about being self-employed is that I have far fewer meetings during the day. Like some of you, I’ve had jobs in which my entire day seemed to be taken up by meetings, including lunch hour. So I wasn’t surprised to see meetings make you stupid from Ghost Girl in which we find out that cognitive list-making powers are dulled in groups and individual brilliance isn’t valued. My gut sense is that meeting-centric workplaces can be led by lonely people who want company. When their sense of loneliness and alienation get too much, they call a meeting. And sometimes their sense of loneliness and alienation is constant, so there are constant meetings to appease it.

I’m sure that doesn’t explain the phenomenon in its entirety, but would you like to have a meeting to discuss it further? Just kidding.