Efficient Communication - by Ryan Peterman

👋 Hi, this is Ryan with this week’s newsletter. I write about software engineering, big tech/startups and career growth. Thank you for your readership, we hit 33,000 readers this week 🙏 🎉 This week, I’m writing about efficient communication and how it can cut down on meetings. If you find the post helpful, please share it with your friends and coworkers. Enjoy! It’s not controversial to say that meetings hurt productivity for software engineers. That’s because meetings cost engineers more. Async communication via writing is one of the best ways to reduce meeting load, yet still efficiently exchange information. This can help us defragment our calendars. There are a few reasons why writing is more efficient than speaking in engineering organizations. Reading is faster than listening. A quick Google search shows that on average, people read around 2x faster than they can listen. This efficiency gap is even more pronounced when you consider skimming. People don’t need to read every wor

👋 Hi, this is Ryan with this week’s newsletter. I write about software engineering, big tech/startups and career growth. Thank you for your readership, we hit 33,000 readers this week 🙏 🎉 This week, I’m writing about efficient communication and how it can cut down on meetings. If you find the post helpful, please share it with your friends and coworkers. Enjoy! It’s not controversial to say that meetings hurt productivity for software engineers. That’s because meetings cost engineers more. Async communication via writing is one of the best ways to reduce meeting load, yet still efficiently