Going Asynch
A work culture dominated by synchronous communications norms is suboptimal
There are a lot of essays that suggest that work chat tools — like Slack, Teams, or the like — are eating up huge amounts of time and mental energy. I like Jason Fried’s line:
Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda.
Rather than repeat the many, many, many observations about how synchronous communications — an…
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