There’s one, often overlooked, skill that will be critical for the next 10 years.

Writing.

It’s always been important but asynchronous work has only underlined its importance.

Darren Murph of GitLab explained: ”At its core, asynchronous communication is documentation...

Hybrid work has brought along a new phenomenon — hybrid meetings. 

For their logistical challenges, they've become even more dreaded than fully online meetings. 

Darren Murph, Head of Remote at GitLab even advocates against them at all costs:

"Hybrid calls should be...

COVID made us rethink our physical offices and invest heavily in redesigning our HQs. But if we want to give everybody an equal chance to access information, opportunity and each other, physical HQ is not the way. For that, we need to carefully design and build our Digital HQs.

Digital HQ...

“Hey, folks, how much time do you spend on async communication vs meetings in your roles?”

Having my first coffee, I bumped into two friends of mine in the co-working space. 

Time for micro research. I told myself.

At once, they said “Roughly 80% async 20% meetings.”

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