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It’s ridiculous how a few hundred millisecond lag can make communication difficult and frustrating but certain people on the internet pretend an unpredictable lag between minutes and days for every step of a conversation is exactly the same as an in person chat. It so obviously isn’t.

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Yeah. It is basically impossible for 3 thoroughly confused people to align on a topic they don't fully understand asynchronously. There can be dozens of questions, unknowns, clarifications, ect.

Email is great for instructions to do X with Y requirements.

It is terrible to figure out what needs to be done and what the requirements are.

I wish there were a better way, but I havent found it. As a result, I spend probably half my day in cross functional meetings with 10-15 people.

Now would you describe that as synchronous or asynchronous?

16 hour delay for me to reply "Would I describe what as syncronous or asynchronous?".

If you have a point to make, make it. Better yet, you waste your time writing out a lot of detail so I can one-line ignore it with plausible deniability (because this "should be an email" stuff often turns out like a power play in that style).

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