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Replying to @jogbert
Surely long conversations are what email+mailing lists are for?
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Even that is incredibly tedious after a while and adds far more latency to the conversation.
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So you don't want to use email, and you don't want to use IM. What on earth would you prefer?
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Er, there's this thing called the telephone.
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Ugh, entirely impossible to grep afterwards.
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This is why I have a notebook.
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You are lucky to be able to do that. I find it impossible to both participate in a discussion *and* take notes. I can do one or the other.
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I try and pause the conversation occasionally so that I can keep notes thorough. I struggle with it too.
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And this is why I prefer mechanisms which *start* in written form :-)
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I find that sometimes it's just easier to *talk* to a person
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Replying to @jogbert
I have to actively fight against that here. Those who "walk over and talk to someone" often fail to share the results around the team's other members. Emails on a mailing list do that automatically. I understand f2f bandwidth is higher, but it's a major issue in split teams.

Mar 19, 2018 ยท 10:25 AM UTC