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How to Move Your Team Toward Async-First Communication
- Share ideas across your team. You can do this in a face-to-face, real-time meeting, or you can do it asynchronously in a digital chat channel (e.g., Slack or Microsoft Teams). The key is to take the time to describe each of your ideas, allow people to ask questions, and to riff on the ideas.
Teresa Torres • Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
The 37signals Guide to Internal Communication
The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via email? In Basecamp? How do we keep everyone in the loop without everyone getting tangled in everyone else’s business? It’s all in here.
Rules of thumb, and general philosophy
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After interviewing a ton of founders that have either been remote-first from the beginning or are shifting to remote-first, I found that one of the most important things is this default to async work, where documentation is just so critical. Everything needs to be well documented, shareable and discoverable within your team.
Jan-Erik Asplund • Grant Lee, co-founder of Gamma, on rethinking the primitives of presentations
before replying and take the time to answer the following key prompt: What is the project represented by this message, and what is the most efficient (in terms of messages generated) process for bringing this project to a successful conclusion? Once you’ve answered this question for yourself, replace a quick response with one that takes the time to
... See moreCal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
An alternative form of interaction that avoids the overhead problem is asynchronous messaging, which doesn’t require a receiver to be present when a message is sent.