Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Thornworks Technology Podcast.

I'm one of your regular host, Neil Ford, and I'm joined by another of our regular

host, Ken, who I'll let introduce himself.

Hi, my name is Ken McGrage. Nice to be talking to you.

And we are talking today about asynchronous collaboration, and we have two guests here who I will let introduce themselves, starting with Maya.

Hi, I'm Mayor Massa.

I am from the Chile office right now.

Hi, I'm Sumit, and I'm a product manager at HotWorks.

All right.

So one of the topics that came up on our most recent technology radar,

and in fact, one of the things that yielded one of our themes is this idea of

have we gotten better at remote work. We were kind of building slowly good practices and

we were forced to do it for a while. But now it's sometimes optional as to whether you you can work remotely and asynchronously or not.

And we have some thoughts about that that we were going to talk about here on our podcast.

So what is our opinion about asynchronous collaboration in the current post-pandemic era?

Let Samit start because he's been thinking about this a lot to the point of writing a book about it.

So we should talk about a little bit about what his book is and some perspectives he has.

Yeah, to be honest, I try to decouple those two concepts of remote and async.

And I'll tell you why, but of course, it works more effectively when you're remote,

because when you're remote, if you're trying to do every interaction through a conversation,

then before long, your entire calendar is cluttered with meetings. And each of us as a technologist

in this conversation. So we know we need blocks of time where we are uninterrupted, we have

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