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Why Your Engineering Team Dreads Your Meetings (And What to Do About It)

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Etienne de Bruin
Mar 07, 2025
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I'm standing at the whiteboard in a rented beach house, marker in hand, while fifteen of my developers sit around the living room in various states of discomfort. We're on day two of our first-ever engineering retreat for our growing CMS company. I'd imagined this time away would build camaraderie and alignment. Instead, the tension in the room is palpa…

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