I Ran Every Meeting Async for 30 Days. Here's What Actually Happened.

For 30 days, I replaced all team meetings with async updates. No standups, no planning sessions, no "quick syncs." Here's what I learned. The Setup My team was three people, distributed across two time zones. We had: Daily standup: 15-20 minutes Weekly planning: 45 minutes Biweekly review: 30 minutes Various "quick calls" that were never quick Total: roughly 5-7 hours per week in meetings. I proposed a 30-day experiment: what if we replaced all of it with written async updates? The System Each m