Working remotely day to day, I've seen some patterns of communication that feel like they could be slightly better for this mode of work.
Personally, doing calls with screen sharing when they could have been replaced by a screenshot or a code snippet alongside a text message feels like not the most efficient way to do things. Much like the "this meeting could have been an e-mail joke".
And yet, most of the sites that out there that encapsulate some of these ideas feel a bit emotionally charged:
https://nohello.net/en/ has a facepalm as a reaction to the behavior (though the design is great)
So I went ahead and made my own little page that attempts to offer similar suggestions in a slightly more boring manner. Maybe some day I'll get a proper domain for it.
Overall, asynchronous communication just feels like one of those things where you can improve how well it works with minimal effort.
The pleasantries description feels out of alignment with the practice outline as an example. The good message still starts with 'hello', it just doesn't treat it as a statement that requires individual acknowledgement. Which is great, that practice is great, but I think the framing could use some work.
But it also has a special badge so that can communicate to other people that you bundle polite greetings in with the payload of the message, which I think is weird, and is probably a clue that the author and I don't share a cultural context here.
Personally, doing calls with screen sharing when they could have been replaced by a screenshot or a code snippet alongside a text message feels like not the most efficient way to do things. Much like the "this meeting could have been an e-mail joke".
And yet, most of the sites that out there that encapsulate some of these ideas feel a bit emotionally charged:
https://nohello.net/en/ has a facepalm as a reaction to the behavior (though the design is great)
https://nohello.club/ calls pleasantries "useless", even if the logo is cool
https://no-hello.com/ seems to be meant for sending to someone in particular
So I went ahead and made my own little page that attempts to offer similar suggestions in a slightly more boring manner. Maybe some day I'll get a proper domain for it.
Overall, asynchronous communication just feels like one of those things where you can improve how well it works with minimal effort.