An ex-Amazon PM ‘promoted’ the silent reading culture in my previous company. Definitely brought a lot of benefits:

- forced more senior / leadership members to read through and internalize the details. Reduces wasted time asking already answered questions.

- we used google docs. Question and answers were posted as comments. This formed a log of the majority of the discussion. Less note taking needed.

- allowed less assertive members to ask questions or give answers.

The only drawback - the overwhelming silence at the start that I never really got over…