There's a strong relationship between writing and focus. The more writing done beforehand, the more productive a meeting can be. But writing is harder to coord

There's a strong relationship between writing and focus. The more writing done beforehand, the more productive a meeting can be. But writing is harder to coordinate over. Just think of all those multi-day hundred-message chat arguments that happen from time to time. Going completely async means things fall through the cracks by default, so we need to write more and more to compensate. But meetings are great for synchronizing information and coming to decisions quickly. Meetings have high information bandwidth and we're much more adapted to face to face conversation than back and forth writing. So on top of the Focus-Coordination spectrum, there's the Sync-Async spectrum, where focus and async are on one side, and coordination and synchronous communication are on the other. We can use sync and asynchronous communication to achieve that balance between focus and coordination across time.