Welcome to Issue 84!
I joined the async movement this week.
Member 6,128 of a growing community who believe in the power of asynchronous communication to transform how we live and work.
Asynchronous - the new business buzzword, which OED defines as ‘not existing or occurring at the same time’. Meetings are the exception, not the rule.
Companies like GitLab, Doist, Zapier, Trello, Gumroad, and Automattic have worked this way for decades, so we can learn a lot from them.
Research shows that async brainstorming results in more novel ideas than real-time approaches.
Join the async movement here.
Scrolling through the member forum, I see we’re struggling with the same stuff: deep work and flexibility, slower productivity, working seasonally, and being free from the meeting monster.
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