To me, when an organization is distributed (especially during COVID), it is even *more* critical to have meetings ONLY when necessary. http://jillwohlner.com/zooming-outta-control/ …
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Hot Take: People have meetings instead of an alternative because it’s less work to throw together a meeting than write thoughtful communication….don’t be that person.
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Fully agree with that. What I never quite figured out is how to establish writing as an element of culture: unfortunately an organization which doesn’t write also tends to be an organization that doesn’t read
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I’ve found this particularly tricky in organisations where not everyone shares the same primary language.
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ESL speakers would probably find it eaier to decode text than voice (I do). It avoids the problem of decodinng body language, audio subtext, accents, cultural references, .... Writing well is hard though.
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easier, damn it.
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For me personally, being able to read material lets me think over the content, bounce it around and come up with questions. Doing that in a meeting is harder.
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ESL aside, this is still true! Was reading a proposal to do something networky at AWS recently — oh, how does this affect security groups? i better go read the AWS docs — come back and now I can formulate questions. That would be so inefficientl “live”
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