Why the cofounder of Axios is a big fan of cutting meetings

In his new book, ‘Just the Good Stuff,’ Jim VandeHei shares his productivity tips, including taking frequent inventory of his company—and his own job.

Finishing someone else’s sentences is traditionally cited as an indicator of intimacy. It’s what friends, partners, or colleagues do when they’ve spent enough time together to act as each other’s predictive text generators. In truth, though, this behavior might not actually be a sign of intimacy, but rather impatience. People often finish...