Documents aren’t built for discussion.

This problem has driven me particularly crazy because discussing ideas with my team is so critical. When I get up in the morning, I don’t get amped about writing a beautiful doc but I do get excited about the contributions, ideas, and thoughts from my coworkers.

Writing a document is easy. But sharing a document to get thoughts from my team has been hard. I’ve sent out the link over Slack, asked for feedback by a certain date, tried to monitor who’s opened it, pinged people to read it again, and maybe ended up with a handful of inline comments that don’t give me meaningful feedback.

Today’s document tools aren’t built for discussion. We’ve seen so many improvements in how you can write docs like collaborative editing, relational tables, fancy blocks, and more. These features are powerful but they incentivize us to polish and present our ideas. We should spend less time writing documents and more time discussing the ideas.