That wasn't the worst! Once I was trying to schedule a call with him and he said "I don't know if a call will help. Let's schedule a meeting to decide if we should call."
I put my foot down fast on that one: "We either meet or we don't! We're not going to meet about meeting."
Leidy's book Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less was great fun: https://leidyklotz.com/media/
I bought it and am halfway through. It's great!
I'm somewhat horrified your CTO thought that adding yet another asynchronous round of context switching would help things! Eek!
That wasn't the worst! Once I was trying to schedule a call with him and he said "I don't know if a call will help. Let's schedule a meeting to decide if we should call."
I put my foot down fast on that one: "We either meet or we don't! We're not going to meet about meeting."