Why slow communication is faster

Real-time, all-the-time.

A quick Slack message here, a quick Google Meet there.

All so immediate… yet it takes an hour to get one decision made.

Fast is, oftentimes, quite slow.

Meanwhile… thoughtful, slow messages that anticipate problems and present solutions take half the time to write, and give you the other half back to to something else while the other person ponders your words and chooses a path forward.

As Mark Twain once quipped, “I apologise for such a long letter - I didn’t have time to write a short one”…

…today’s equivalent would be, “I apologise for the long Zoom meeting - I didn’t have time to dignify you with considered thought.”

Slow down. It’s faster that way.