I am in the Japanese timezone. I am working with people in central Europe, East Canada and Silicon Valley. Have worked in such a way for years. The secret is j

I am in the Japanese timezone. I am working with people in central Europe, East Canada and Silicon Valley. Have worked in such a way for years. The secret is just: no meetings. Meetings should be exceptional. If you have discussions in a timezone, record it for those who can't attend. Prefer async, prefer written communication. Have lots of one-on-one communication. 90% of the meetings I have ever attended were counter-productive anyway and were just there because a middle manager wanted to feel useful by wasting devs time. If you are having a meeting where one person is doing most of the talking it can be done async. Feedback can be given async. Demos can be done async. Some conversations need realtime, but most of these can happen one-on-one, recorded for people who are in a different TZ. Yes, that's a different way of working, but it is not too hard, we have the tools and it makes sense. The only obstacle is a culture of the useless meeting. Kill it, embrace the async world. Keep realtime communication for meaningful 1-on-1.