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A text record of what happened isn't just useful for new hires, not just useful for async comms, but for people like me who want to be sure we followed along.
by drewcoo 1y ago
A text record of what happened isn't just useful for new hires, not just useful for async comms, but for people like me who want to be sure we followed along.
Spur-of-the-moment phone calls and meetings (especially camera-on ones with some uncaptured visual elements that the blind can't follow) tend to foul that up. And trigger the autistics who are likely hiding amongst the rest of you. We are legion. Treat us gently and we will likely do all manner of scutwork, refactoring old nasty untouchable code, and pager duty. i love debugging!
[Edit to add: Never trust a manager who likes to give directions in impromptu, unrecorded/unrecordable sessions. That means for some reason they want to be off-record. Or don't understand management. Either one of those is trouble.]
- ElevenLathe 1y ago> [Edit to add: Never trust a manager who likes to give directions in impromptu, unrecorded/unrecordable sessions. That means for some reason they want to be off-record. Or don't understand management. Either one of those is trouble.] I'll add "they're functionally illiterate" to the list of reasons managers and other awful-to-work-with people default to "a quick huddle". I have no data but I suspect this is a big reason and will be getting bigger as we start seeing more employees who went to school in the AI era. This is also the real reason managers are so enamored of AI: reading and writing are, to them, the biggest obstacles in a typical day at work. Any machine that can help with this is welcome, and they don't have any experience what precise communication is actually like to understand how poor a replacement it is.