No agenda, no meeting

This article critiques the common workplace practice of scheduling meetings without clear agendas, likening it to calling a function without documentation. It highlights how such meetings force unnecessary context-switching and often fail to produce decisions, given that knowledge workers already spend 40% of their week in meetings. The author promotes an async-first approach: writing before meeting, including agendas, and stating decisions upfront. A website, noagendanomeeting.net, is introduced as a diplomatic tool to decline agenda-free meetings. The piece is relevant to IT/technology professionals, focusing on communication best practices, productivity, and engineering management principles.