Any meeting invitation I receive that doesn’t have an agenda attached goes straight to the recycle bin. If it has an agenda attached that doesn’t either interest or involve me in some way it merits a formal decline (and then straight to the recycle bin). Meetings that get by both of those filters will be met with more traditional evasion-and-escape techniques.
I am going to jump face-first into a modern web dev workflow. That means goodies like:
