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17/08/2025

I am at absolute war with scheduled meetings.
Not because I'm antisocial. Because I did the maths.

Last year, I tracked every communication method against its outcome. In-person meetings. Video calls. WhatsApp messages. Everything.

Here's what I found:

🫣 90% of my scheduled meetings could have been a voice note
🫣 70% of my calls could have been an email
🫣 60% my emails could have been a text

The average meeting lasted 45 minutes. The problem took 5 minutes to solve. The other 40?

Small talk, 17 minutes of talking about the wrong thing because the small talk created an unexpected rabbit hole about someones trip to Bali and now we're talking about restaurant recommendations in Bali and not cash flow, waiting for people to arrive late, more small talk because "we have time left" & filling awkward silences.

🎭 Communication theatre 💃

Let me be clear, communication theatre absolutely has it's place, but it's place is a special one - it's place is not everywhere, for everything, all the time.

So, I ran an experiment: For months, when someone wanted to "hop on a quick call," I'd respond: "In the interest of both your time and mine, let's try and do this over WhatsApp, email, slack instead."

Here's what happened:

What took an hour in meetings now takes 4 minutes in messages.
A 49-slide PowerPoint became a 3-paragraph memo sent via whatsapp.
Project updates became 90-second voice notes.

I'm saving 10-15 hours a week sometimes.
Not from working less, just by communicating smarter.

The real gain isn't time though. It's cognitive energy. Your brain has a daily decision budget. Burn it on unnecessary meetings, and there's nothing left for actual thinking.

"This makes business transactional". Yes. Exactly! It's business. 90% of communication in business is transactional. You're trying to give something, to get something.

MY SIMPLE FRAMEWORK:

📅 Needs a meeting: Situations where body language & trust-building matters.

📞 Needs a call: More emotional and sensitive conversations.

🗣️ Voice notes: To add a greater feeling of connection and human context to quick questions. Updates. Feedback.

💬 Text/email is enough: Information transfer. Yes/no decisions. FYIs. Everything else.

⏳ The 7-Minute Rule: If the discussion can be handled in 7 minutes or less asynchronously (voice note, email, text), it doesn’t need a meeting.

Parkinson's Law says work expands to fill time available. Give a meeting an hour, it takes an hour. Even if you solved it in minute seven.

Those 53 wasted minutes? That's a 88% tax on your entire life.

We have tech today that didn’t exist 10 years ago,
yet most of us still follow business traditions from 30 years ago.

I want to start an army of people who agree with this and who are willing to push back with me on: “Can we hop on a call?”, “Let’s schedule some time to connect", “Can I put some time in your diary?”, “Can we take this offline?”. As an army we can end this tradition once and for all.

Who's with me!!?

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