Comment by arcticfox

> Spending your entire day in 30-minute one-on-ones with people will not help either of those.

How many of these meetings do you think the author is suggesting?? Even one day of that is 16 meetings, roughly the number of people I worked with on a regular basis at Microsoft.

Clearly the author is suggesting to mix them with regular work. One hour of effective meetings per day, plus seven hours in the code, is going to be vastly more effective than just wallowing through code for the entire day.