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Remote Collaboration in the Time of Coronavirus
- rectang 6y agoThe article on "Encouraging a Culture of Written Communication" currently being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23141353 recommends that... > you should try to have a single source of truth as much as possible > As much as possible, encourage people to post anything of interest to the public channels. In my view, this is backwards. A public (to the team) single source of truth is the imperative. You want to require it, because having a canonical, asynchronous channel where all decisions must be discussed before they are finalized allows for efficient remote collaboration! Good writing will often but not always follow as a consequence of establishing that canonical asynchronous channel, as team members strive to operate effectively within it — but the writing is only a means to an end.