As a developer I have absolutely no qualms with the weekly meetings and since we're fully remote, it's actually nice to be in touch with my team mates, even if they talk about the part they're doing right now for a while.
What I had issues with in the past is forced daily meeting (on top of other meetings) that just created stress and fatigue for me. Starting my day with a standup was literally the worst way to start it ever.
In contrast, I always advocated for my teams to stand up in the morning as a way to set the agenda for the day and make sure everyone was clear about what they were going to work on, as well as have an opportunity to schedule meetings with each other if needed. After that, we were done and the rest of the day was yours.
Glad I’m not part of your team. Morning is the most productive time for me, the less human interaction about “accountability” and “agenda” for the day I have the better.
Do that at the end of the day, not the beginning - review the work you've done and the work you are going to do, and then do not waste my mornings where I am productive on meetings - I probably spend less than 10% of my creative effort possible because of this morning meeting crap.
Daily is a very different psychological load. Even when it's "only 15 minutes" it can dominate the start of the day and make every morning feel like a small performance review...
It is completely possible that the path that got them to this point was the optimal path given their goals and knowledge at the time. And wildly enough, maybe it was even the optimal path with perfect knowledge of the future as well.
The question is not stupid, it might be banal, but so is "what is 2+2". It shows the limitations of LLMs, in this specific case how they lose track of which object is which.
Zelensky was arguably a nobody internationally, until he lead his country to stalling out the entire military might of the Russian Federation in a war that's only a few months away from being longer than the Great Patriotic One, and keep on giving Russia bloodey noses like taking out a chunk of their strategic bomber fleet, the underwater drone strike on Novorossiysk, and tanking the Russian economy. Not bad for a literal comedian.
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