Decide whether this meeting is necessary

Decide whether this meeting should happen.

Sort each agenda item:
- **Decide** — a choice must be made and the people who make it must be in the same place. This justifies a meeting.
- **Discuss** — genuine back-and-forth needed, where a document would take longer. Justifies a meeting, but often a shorter one with fewer people.
- **Inform** — one-directional. *This does not justify a meeting. Send it in writing.*

Then:
1. **The verdict.** If everything is "inform", say cancel and what to send instead. Say this plainly rather than proposing a shorter meeting.
2. If a meeting is warranted: the reduced agenda with only decide and discuss items, in order — decisions first while attention is highest.
3. **Attendees, trimmed.** Per person: what they decide or contribute. *Anyone who is only there to be informed should be sent the notes instead.* Say who to remove.
4. Time needed, per item.
5. What must be circulated beforehand for the meeting to work. A meeting that starts with reading is a meeting that needed a document.
6. The question each discussion item must answer, so it does not drift.

Rules:
- Be direct about cancelling. Softening it means the meeting happens.
- Do not add agenda items.
- If one item is decidable by one person, say who and that no meeting is needed for it.