Mike Tannenbaum

Async communication is about allowing team members to “consume and respond to messages on their own time instead of on the sender’s schedule.”

current biodegradable products can only decompose if they are sent to a special factory, where the temperature and humidity is specially controlled, and lumped together with other compostable plastics. (If those plastics are thrown into landfill and mixed in with other trash, it doesn’t matter if they’re compostable or not. They’re not going back... See more

As long as the devs are doing something, capital will flow back in eventually.

We risk losing the lives we have made if we don’t take better account of nature.

If we see the 20d exceeding the 200d and 200w, and staying ahead of them for a couple weeks at a time for Bitcoin or Ethereum, we might be back in the start of a new meta cycle.

All coordination is a choice. To win this coordination game, we need to choose to coordinate to make this into a multiplayer game

By setting norms around communication and boundaries around work, async can be used to create a calmer, more productive, more quality-focused, and more human-centered way of working.

Meat and dairy production uses 83% of farmland and causes 60% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions, but provides only 18% of calories and 37% of protein.