If you want to understand the importance of collaboration in the workplace, just look at the tools you use. There’s Slack and other IM tools for constant communication. Email and project management tools to send updates and important information. And Google docs, Dropbox, and others for working in real-time.

maybe email is the last good platform
✔️ no ads
✔️ no algorithm
✔️ portable data
✔️ muting people/companies baked in

Simply put, asynchronous communication is when you send a message without expecting an immediate response. For example, you send an email. I open and respond to the email several hours later.

I believe we are incredibly lucky that email is free.

For programmers it can be several hours. Why start working on this hard problem when I know the afternoon is going to be broken in half by a meeting?

Is there a name for the 10-minute period before a meeting starts where you’re like, there’s no point in getting to work on X, because I have a meeting in 10 minutes

No I don't wanna "hop on a quick call", just write an email, we're in 2021, I lack the emotional energies needed for a call

Many teams start their day with the infamous three questions of the daily stand-up: "what did you do yesterday?", "what are you going to do today?", and "what are you blocked by?".

Недавно в очередной раз в разговоре всплыла тема использования мессенджеров в противовес электронной почте и я в очередной раз признался в сильной нелюбви к мессенджерам, которые требуют синхронного общения. То есть, если вам написали в мессенджер, то ждут ответа здесь и сейчас, тем более, что в большинстве мессенджеров видно, что вы сообщение получили и прочли.

life protip: instead of saying "sorry for the late response" instead say "thank you for your patience" I mean, we were using pigeons as a vector for communication for thousands of years, let's not get carried away with this weird sense of urgency, geez barbara your email can wait

My favorite meetings are cancelled meetings. They are the most productive.

dear world: stop asking me to talk on the phone. i hate the phone.