[rmcastil]

This all depends on the environment you're working in. When we used to do lunch and learns they were on Fridays which were blocked off for side projects.

Plus half the time we did lunches it was as a team and we always ended up talking shop.

We also welcomed free food and had other people in the community come and speak. Now if you're in a culture where it's 100% coding 9 to 5 then I'd completely agree with you.