Let’s be honest with each other. The weekly 1:1 meeting — that sacred cow of modern management, evangelized by HR departments and dutifully dropped into our calendars like a recurring digital headache — is bullshit. I am not against having a good, deep coffee talk that is spontaneous.

It is a soul-crushing waste of high-value time. It is a relic of an industrial-era mindset where managers, like factory foremen, had to physically check the human machinery to ensure it was function...