Busy, but what am I actually doing?

I attend meetings I secretly hope will get cancelled

I am busy. Please don’t ask me why. Just check my calendar. It’s the crime scene.

I’ve received more calendar invites in three weeks than in my first two years in the company. Architecture committee, Hiring committee, SRE Catchup, Internal alignment, cross-clan alignment. I can’t cite all of them. And now I understand why people block time for lunch. I i…