Cancel your meetings if you can live with the outcome

In this pragmatic guide, engineering leaders will discover a counterintuitive approach to reclaiming productivity: strategically canceling meetings where the outcome won't be significantly impacted. Drawing from personal experience, the article argues that most meetings are bloated with unnecessary participants, consume valuable focus time for makers and developers, and can often be replaced by asynchronous communication or brief written updates. The key insight is a simple yet powerful principle: "You can cancel every meeting as long as you live with the outcome" - empowering professionals to ruthlessly protect their most precious resource - uninterrupted work time.