Just a quick link to something that caught my eye merely for the headline, Meetings Make Us Dumber, Study Shows. At first I thought this was good for a laugh, knowing how many of us sit in countless meetings every week. Then I got to thinking about teaching and the penchant for relying on group work in writing classes. I still believe there are lots of good things to be had by collaboration, but the perils of groupthink do raise some intriguing possibilities for revisiting notions of the individual author. Plus, I knew there was something about all those brainstorming sessions that brought out the beast in me.