While I do not particularly often take part in meetings, I know of some colleagues who often go and have programming to do. I really can see the stress in their eyes, when the meetings for the day are over shortly after lunch time and they have a lot (a lot) of coding still to do.<p>Also there are two kinds of incompetent people: those knowing (or somehow &quot;sensing&quot;) they have &quot;to learn a lot&quot; and those thinking they are king (don&#x27;t even know about basic CS stuff).