Why is it called a stand-up meeting? Why can't people sit down?

That's interesting. So I think there's a lot of science behind people. And I think there's a lot of really great readings out there about how we function as humans. Some are classical common wisdom. Some are new-agey, trendy, software-devy types of things. But there's an interesting dynamic that occurs, not just in people's brains, but also in the impact of that conversation, when people stay standing up. If you stand up versus sitting down, you tend to do things quicker, your legs start getting tired, your brain functions a little bit differently, and it also reflects the intention of what that is supposed to be. So if I stand up and I say it's a 15-minute stand-up, it's a pretty common thing to do at the beginning of the day, beginning of the week, beginning of the project, beginning of the feature, whatever it is, because we are getting in a room, we are all going over either what our blockers are, what's coming up next, what we're working on, to get in and get out. Right? Because people complain about meetings. Oh, I got meetings. When you sit down and you have your coffee and then you relax, it's still all work-related, but it depends on the goal of the meeting, right? There's even science behind taking someone out of their natural environment, which is maybe the same meeting room we meet in every single Monday for the last three years, and going, we're going to go outside and do it now, right? It sounds super new-agey and kind of like some of these new software companies, but it's the same thing, right? The reason you have work lunches, right? It's the same thing. Your brain goes through a change. There's all kinds of unique things and fun things that happen to the human existence when you do these things. And back to being able to work with people, it's fun to help engage different parts of their brain and engage different parts of the team to do things in a potentially different, unique way.

But I think also, I made this joke in the ATV that went out yesterday, but nomenclature is so insanely important, right? If you talk to some processes and practices out there that people have been doing for hundreds of years, or they've been building houses or rocket engines or whatever the case may be, once you've established a pipeline and nomenclature and then you all are speaking that same language, there's no questions in it anymore. So when I say the word stand-up right now, everybody watching, I think we know what that means. If I say, hey, everybody on the team, it's time to stand up, sometimes people literally stand up from their desk and they do their round robin and they sit back down. But it's the same thing with our vehicle pipeline. It's called ships. It's the ship pipeline because we were making ships right back in Arena Commander. That was the goal. And so now we have ground vehicles. Should we change that nomenclature? Or when I say flight prep, everyone knows what I mean. And now, especially with Ship Shape, you're training everyone out there in the world to know what that means. And I wanted to go more into that on the studio update, but I'm like, all right, you don't want to hear me talk about nomenclature on this thing. Just show stuff. But the nomenclature of flight prep, once it was established years ago, everyone that comes in as a new employee, they get taught this way, they get to say this thing. When I say it in an email, hey, that ship's in flight prep, there are no questions. If I say it's kind of towards the end, what does that mean? Does that mean it has UVs? Does it mean the damage setup? Does it mean VFX is in? Does it mean sound's done? When does that happen? The reason you see these beautiful pipelines being created and then iterated and changed is, once we all are looking at the same map, or we're going the same way, we take so many questions out. Once I know what my job is, I know what part of the pipeline is important to me, I know when it happens, I know where it's going to come. It's the Chipotle question. But how we still allow for creativity and for improvements, that's the challenge. I don't know how I got on the stand-up question, but nomenclature is so incredibly important, when you say that word and you start saying it over and over again, that people are like, oh, I get it. I don't have to ask what that means. When Jared says, hey, we're going to do Reverse the Verse, can you be on it? There's a general sense of what the show is now. People know what to expect from it. Over the years of Reverse the Verse, what is that intention, even though it's shifted? It's the same idea.

At a basic level, nobody likes status meetings, right? Status meetings are really bad. Nobody's like, oh, I go to work, I love how many meetings we have. Generally, that's not the thing. We're comfortable here, right? The three of us sitting down here at the table, we're sitting down, we're comfortable, right? So we can park here, we can camp here, we can just hang out here. Well, if people don't like meetings, then if you don't sit down, it goes back to, it's not comfortable. So go there, have just the part of the meeting you need, which is what Eric had said, which is: I'm working on this UI bit. I need a programmer to hook this up, and that's blocking me. But after that, I'll be ready to go on my next task. Why do I need to sit down and then look at a PowerPoint up on the screen? This is what I'm working on, and I'm not blocked. This is what I'm working on, and I am blocked. And then let me get back to developing the game.