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Jean-Michel (jmfayard.dev) • Edited

That's right, never give the work of one person to two persons or more.

I also feel like the issue here is that any medium of communication alone sucks big time. Whether it's face to face, phone, email, wiki, whatsapp, slack, every medium sucks in its own way.
The only salvation is to combine different medium of communication so that you use them for what they are good at.

Like instead of long email and everyone replying all, which the definition of infierno, you should put the long information inside a Google docs,. Then it's completely fine to share the link via email and reply all later that the document is now final, congrats everyone.

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Doug Arcuri

I like the idea of sharing Google docs for knowledge share such as documenting concerns. Taking it a step further, a group can have decision documents. In practice, it requires discipline to keep them updated.