Should the daily stand-up die?

The value of standups aside[1], this:

> just in the form of written, asynchronous posts in Slack, answering: 1. What have you done outside of work? How’s your life going?

Just please no. My current manager has a ritual in our Monday morning team meeting where he asks each team member to say what they did over the weekend.

I could not hate this practice more. It puts a lot of pressure on to come up with something interesting to say that has literally nothing to do with work.

If I took it seriously, it would add a performative aspect to my personal time that reduces the actual benefit of personal time. I don't take it seriously, though: when it's my turn, I tend to say "my weekend was uneventful" and immediately pivot to talking about a work topic.

[1] My opinion of standups is that they only have value with teams that are not working well as teams. In a well-functioning team, the information surfaced in a standup is information already known to everybody.