Hold fewer, better meetings

Why this rule exists

Meetings are the most expensive thing a team does, priced in the multiplied hours of everyone in the room, yet they're scheduled more casually than almost any other spend. A recurring meeting outlives its purpose because nobody's job is to kill it. Bad meetings don't just waste the hour; they fragment the day around them, so the real cost is the focus lost on either side. Fewer, sharper meetings respect that math. A meeting should exist because a decision or a conversation genuinely needs live, shared presence.