The value is in creating a summary, to collect all the stream of conscience updates into a coherent statement about status and next steps. A daily standup of summaries removes the burden of mentally remembering yesterday&#x27;s minutiae to reconstruct the current state.<p>I mean, if you want to know the status of a system do you go to the dashboard or do you go review every system event for the past few hours? I hope not the latter! That&#x27;s what you do when something seems off, which is exactly the case too for daily standups. If something doesn&#x27;t seem right, you go review discussions and updates.<p>Also, at the risk of triggering on standup philosophy, I do believe that zoning out during standups mean it&#x27;s being done poorly: updates are too long or people are not engaging each other. That&#x27;s the problem to fix, by setting an example of good habits yourself: cut off rambling, encourage active cross-questioning and ideas, etc.