> even with the best of care your ideas can easily be misinterpreted resulting in the loss of an async cycle This is not unique to async communication at all -

> even with the best of care your ideas can easily be misinterpreted resulting in the loss of an async cycle This is not unique to async communication at all -- it is just becomes more apparent. I have experienced a lot of sync communication, in which people only seemingly agreed and, when prompted later or as apparent by their resulting actions, quite clearly understood very different things. There is also the very real issue of people getting increasingly tired and more agreeable during the course of a meeting. In async, when you stumble across something that doesn't gel with you, you might default to taking some extra time to think it through. Poor communication pops out that way. In sync communication you might let the same thing go -- not because of clearer signals or because it leads to a better outcome, but because you want things to end.