Why did David Sacks crack down on meetings at PayPal?

“Meetings are an addictive highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.”

I am afraid the company I work for is falling into meeting culture. When do you guys draw the line. We (developers) have started to loose our Monday and sometimes Wednesday mornings because of this and I'm thinking of talking to some people to change the situation.

I find that small-scale meetings are underused. I have been making a habit lately of going to see folks I'd usually only connect with via email.<p>Seeing someone face to face at their cross-town facility can't be beat.

I wish people would figure this out where I work. A meeting destroys half a day because the time on both sides of that hour is spent getting back into the coding zone.<p>What would be nice is some way to collaboratively work on diagrams in an email thread. Occasionally it is helpful to hash something out at the whiteboard but if that could be captured and automatically included as documentation that would be even better.