Synchronous Communication is the New Cocaine in Silicon Valley

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Meetings and Video Calls are great for tasks that require instant decisions. Most meetings in large companies can be replaced by effective documentation, well-written emails or small visual clips. Real-time messaging is for quick updates; as the team grows, it invariably becomes chaotic and shallow. Asynchronous communication is necessary for modern, distributed teams. It focuses on making sure that a collaborative task is executed without a lot of meetings. The culture of having meetings from morning to evening is the top reason why startups have stopped innovating.