May 4, 2026
How to Write Async Updates That Actually Get Read
Most async updates fail before they're read. Here's how to write async updates that actually get actioned — a 4-part template for ICs on distributed teams. (155 characters)
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Notes from the continuum.
Thinking on distributed work, async coordination, and the systems problems hiding inside your calendar.
Apr 30, 2026
Why Teams Default to Meetings (Even When Everyone Wants Fewer)
Why do meetings keep coming back even after you cut them? This analysis names the structural causes of meeting default behaviour.
read more →Apr 26, 2026
The Hidden Cost of Timezone Math: What Time Zone Cognitive Load Actually Costs
How much does timezone math actually cost your team? A concrete breakdown of conversion overhead, scheduling round-trips, and bad-slot attention loss — with the arithmetic.
read more →Apr 24, 2026
Cross-Timezone Meeting Fatigue Is Real — Here's What's Causing It
Cross-timezone meeting fatigue has five structural causes. Understanding them explains why cutting meetings alone doesn't solve it — and what actually does.
read more →Apr 22, 2026
When Async Breaks Down: The Failure Modes Nobody Talks About
When async breaks down, it follows predictable patterns. Five failure modes, each with a structural cause — so you can stop treating five problems as one.
read more →Mar 12, 2025
Scheduling is a physics problem
Why treating coordination as a calendar problem has been holding distributed teams back — and what happens when you think about it differently.
read more →Feb 28, 2025
The async-first manifesto (working draft)
A set of operating principles for teams that have accepted that synchronous coordination is a special case, not the default.
read more →Feb 10, 2025
On temporal drift and distributed teams
Drift is not just a problem for spacecraft. Every distributed team accumulates it — in the form of desynchronised context, diverging assumptions, and meetings that no longer reflect reality.
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