Document overview video

https://www.loom.com/share/e332315c14da4b338c7ab37f5100668c

In depth articles

Obstacles in Remote Work: Adopt Async Work and unlock 5 enormous benefits
How to actually practice Async work effectively and never dread remote meetings nightmare
Post about how to run remote meetings (TBD)
Post about Deep work (TBD)

<aside> 📘 Glossary

Sync AKA Synchronous time - refers to an event or activity that is occurring in real time for all participants.

Async AKA Asynchronous time - refers to an event or activity that is happening at different times for different participants

Async communication ****- refers to the exchange of information or messages that does not require an immediate response or the participation of all parties at the same time, eg. a message or email.

Sync communication - refers to the exchange of information or messages that requires an immediate response or the participation of all parties at the same time, eg. a video call.

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Why Async?

Fostering deep work, focus and flow
Synchronous time is expensive. Save time.
Async documentation lives on and saves lots of time and foster transparency and cross-collaboration, meetings don’t.
Fosters Deep thinking and helps people mull things over
Get work done without blockers at your own time, order and pace. And be happier.

When to do Async

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Amazing for async = Transmitting information

<aside> 🎯 Default to async first, then sync if needed as this also fosters deeper thinking

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Examples

Walkthroughs, documentation, explanations.
Information sharing (like Research summary)
Feedback review cycles (small feedback required; updates after big feedback was already given)
Simple questions and answers

When to do Sync

Things that are potentially better to do live (synchronously) = Transforming information (mental tennis of ideas is required between each other)

Hard conversations, delivering constructive feedback or other emotional content.
Workshops and brainstorming
Design review that involve live discussion, maybe even changes and complex brainstorming (with async prep)
Very complex subject matter or when ideas are diverging and require decision (Still good to have some parts pre-recorded for context beforehand)
Complex discussions that require too many decisions to be made.
To create a social experience
- Eg. the meeting fosters a better social bond between colleagues or sense of belonging, etc.

Deep work

TODO

How to do Async?

Let’s talk about how to perform some tasks asynchronously. Though before that, let’s have a look at tools we might use.