Learn more about our working culture and values.
Good communication is about saying the right thing at the right time. For our team, that means written and asynchronous by default.
Weekly status updates? Project kick-offs? Quarterly and monthly planning? Retrospectives? All are carried out asynchronously, in the form of structured write-ups in Nuclino.
Sometimes a face-to-face discussion is the best way to make progress – when you need to work through a complex problem, for example. But when meetings are the norm – the first resort, the go-to tool to discuss, debate, and solve every problem and share every update – they no longer work.
We reserve them for emergencies, more personal team check-ins, or particularly challenging problems. Most other issues can be more efficiently addressed asynchronously.
To do productive work, we require the time and space to get into the zone. Building context can take hours, and it can be instantly destroyed by a random interruption.
To combat that in our team, we make sure to block out large, uninterrupted chunks of private time (at least half a day at a time) for "singletasking" through our most important projects, while making it clear to the rest of the team that we are going to be unavailable.
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