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Meanwhile, I'm constantly realizing that something I remembered didn't happen in Slack or Email or the issue tracker, but on a call, so now I have to hope I tho
by handrous 5y ago
Meanwhile, I'm constantly realizing that something I remembered didn't happen in Slack or Email or the issue tracker, but on a call, so now I have to hope I thought to take notes, in the moment, and then go find them, when calls are basically the only thing I ever have to take those sorts of notes for, and they're infrequent enough that I'm not so great at consistently remembering to do that (I'm working on it, but still, for god's sake, say it in Slack unless it's impossible to, which is almost never).
- randomdata 5y agoWhen I started working from home, AOL Instant Messenger was still the hot new thing and long distance charges would kill you. Residential bandwidth simply wasn't there for calls. For all intents and purposes, it was textual communication or nothing. It was glorious. Having record of all conversations for easy reference really did help build better software, as far as I am concerned. These days, everyone wants to do video conferencing, it seems, and half the time the job doesn't get done right because someone misheard something or forget what was said. It makes no sense to me. I can only imagine that those who think voice communication is the best communication haven't tried anything else.