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Async Communication is the future

Michael Tempest on July 13, 2022

So this is a pretty heavy statement to start on, but I do truly believe that in engineering async communication is the future. I also don't think e...
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James Ford

Async communication is a bit of a mindset we have to get used to, but it works really well for distributed teams, and it feels like it should work really well for maintaining focus and flow, so long as everyone is comfortable with it. It's amazing to realise how many soft skill behaviours have to be unlearned to make it work without friction.

One good starter for ten is talking about Slack etiquette, like the behaviours documented here: slack.com/intl/en-gb/blog/collabor...