This is well-said.

There's another meeting I particularly hate: Shoehorned into everyone's busy day. We need Doug, Jamal, and Cindy here in order to make a decision. Doug is running late because his previous meeting ran over (domino effect from his very first meeting, which ran over). Jamal arrived on time, but when it was obvious that Doug would be late he started dealing with messages on Slack and never fully tuned back in. Cindy also arrived mostly on time, but announced that she had a hard stop 30 minutes into the hour-long meeting. In the 20 minutes where we actually got Doug, Cindy, and about 50% of Jamal, we got side-tracked on issues that could have been a Slack thread after the fact and never actually made the decision we needed to make.