Field notes
Notes on async-first work and meeting culture.
Essays from the rooms where cross-functional decisions get made, what works, what doesn't, and why the meeting on your calendar this week could open ten minutes in.
May 8, 2026
How to run a roadmap review that doesn't waste the first fifteen minutes on recap
Most roadmap reviews lose the first fifteen minutes to recap, catch-up, and context refresh. Here's how to move that work to before the meeting and open with the real decision.
5 min read
April 29, 2026
Decision drift: why your team revisits the same call two sprints later
A decision made in May, re-litigated in August. Not because anyone disagreed at the time. Because nobody captured the why. Here's how decision trails stop drift.
4 min read
April 22, 2026
Async decision-making frameworks: when a doc beats a meeting, and when it doesn't
Not every decision belongs in a meeting. Not every decision belongs in a doc. Here's the framework for choosing, and why most teams default to the wrong one.
5 min read
April 15, 2026
The loudest voice wins, and what to do about it before your next sprint planning
Sprint planning rewards the people who think out loud. Here's how to surface the quiet engineer's input, the one whose call usually turns out to be right, without rebuilding the meeting.
4 min read
April 3, 2026
Voice notes vs. written input: when each one wins in async work
A 42-second voice note can carry what a Slack thread can't. A written paragraph can carry what a voice note can't. Here's the difference, and why most teams default to the wrong one.
5 min read
March 26, 2026
How to get honest input from a team that's afraid to disagree in the live meeting
The retro that runs smoothly and lands nothing real isn't a facilitation problem. It's a sequencing one. Here's how to surface the things people won't say out loud.
4 min read
March 17, 2026
Cross-functional kickoff checklist: what engineering, design, and CS need before the call starts
A project kickoff that opens with the real disagreement on the table is faster, sharper, and avoids the rework that hits two sprints in. Here's what each function needs to arrive with.
5 min read
March 6, 2026
Follow-the-sun handoffs: making decisions without waiting for the next overlap window
A distributed team across CET, EST, and SGT doesn't have a meeting problem. It has a window problem. Here's how to keep decisions moving when the overlap is forty-five minutes a day.
4 min read
February 26, 2026
What a chief of staff actually does in their first ninety days
Most COS hires think they're being hired to take meetings off the CEO's calendar. The job, in the first ninety days, is the opposite: make the meetings on everyone else's calendar count.
5 min read
February 12, 2026
The five-minute meeting prep that replaces a thirty-minute one-on-one
Most 1:1s are part status update, part venting session. Here's how five minutes of structured prep before the meeting changes what gets discussed.
4 min read
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