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Daily meetings are not really for obtaining useful status information. They're about habituating people into doing real work every day, so that they don't feel like jackasses when they have to report to their peers that they didn't do anything yesterday.

People ostensibly do work to get paid, but that's not really what motivates them to get anything done. Fear of losing face is one such motivation. The dollar is the currency of this century, but social currency is millions of years old and works much better.

And that is why these meetings must be face to face; email doesn't generate enough shame.