The Meeting Singularity
It starts as a classic sysadmin trap. I was assigned to five projects at the same time… At first glance, you tell yourself, “Busy… but manageable.”. After all, spinning up infrastructure and automating pipelines for multiple environments is just part of the job.
But then comes the calendar takeover.
Each project came with its own meetings. Suddenly, your schedule is completely packed from morning to evening. The deep-work time you need to write actual code is rapidly replaced by a wall of colored blocks representing a status meeting, a sync call, an alignment meeting, and a steering committee. You find yourself staring at your screen, muttering, “When do I actually work?”.
