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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2019
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      In addition to assisting remote workers, a commitment to a written culture helps quickly moving organizations by making sure that people execute on decisions made even if they were not yet hired when the decision was made.

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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2019
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      I feel like we should start any meeting of importance with "Look around the room. Think of what the room is going to look like in twelve months. Half of those faces are not yet here with us. The notes *are for them*; let's make sure they are good."

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 14 Nov 2019
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      The alternative to this is that you pass everything through either a) oral lore or b) you build all decisions into the structure of your organization. There are substantial disadvantages to these approaches, particularly for knowledge workers.

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        1. David Gerard‏ @davidgerard 14 Nov 2019
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          in my day job, it's disconcerting how often my value-add is "guy who remembers stuff" I ADDED IT TO THE WIKI YOU KNOW

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        1. Samar Vir‏ @virsamarvir 14 Nov 2019
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          there has to be a better way. Writing is cumbersome. It takes a bit of effort. What if people could record some audio and that is auto transcribed

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        2. Jeff Atwood‏Verified account @codinghorror 14 Nov 2019
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          Huge huge design goal in @discourse and we proselytize this constantly

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        3. Irving Rivas‏ @iajrz 14 Nov 2019
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          So... A healthy co basically has a library of memos and minutes that should be available to all present and future addressees?

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        2. Kwat  🌱‏ @KwatME 14 Nov 2019
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          And evolving the writing based on feedback, outcome, culture, and more (writing may become shorter). This can be beautiful.

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        3. David Gerard‏ @davidgerard 14 Nov 2019
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          alternately we have actual workplace wikis, which tend to become write-only stores of outdated documentation, and are only functional when they're personal notes for the writers sigh

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        2. Sagar Dubey‏ @cigardubey 14 Nov 2019
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          *particularly* for remote workers. I posit that its not possible to have a sane scaleable distributed workforce without good writing practices

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        3. Sagar Dubey‏ @cigardubey 14 Nov 2019
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          What does a good written culture look like?

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        1. John M. P. Knox‏ @WindAddict 14 Nov 2019
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          And here is what A often looks like: “ We already tried that and it was a huge failure.” “How was it implemented?” “You’d have to ask someone else but it was bad.” “Why?” “Look, we already tried it a year ago.” “What were the numbers?” “Bad. Let’s move on.” 🤦‍♂️

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        1. Jakub Pawłowski‏ @qbikez 14 Nov 2019
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          I find Architectural Decision Records (https://adr.github.io/ ) a very compelling idea for that exact reason.

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