It depends, though. Meetings are expensive, and often a waste of a number of people's time. And sometimes figuring out _who_ should be there is a problem (and

It depends, though. Meetings are expensive, and often a waste of a number of people's time. And sometimes figuring out _who_ should be there is a problem (and cause also burn time). Having broader discussions in a Slack thread has the benefits of: a) it fosters transparency -- others are able to see the discussion, and chime in or move on b) it's asynchronous -- others can chime in when they're able to, vs. having to drop what they're doing and join a meeting c) it's self-documenting -- others that may not have been able to attend the meeting, or may just want to know the context/takeaways can just review the discussion Of course, it has the downside of blocking a decision, where a meeting can help arrive at a decision more quickly. But -- at least, in our experience -- most decisions aren't urgent, and the turnaround time a Slack thread yields is typically sufficient. When it's not, we'll jump on a call. Email, to me, is the worst of both worlds. You mention below that it forces more thought, and I agree with that as an upside. But typically (again, in our experience), people are pretty put together pretty well-thought-out discussions together, so it's not really an issue for us. We _never_ use email, and I'm perfectly happy with that.