[lukethomas]

It really depends on the meeting. Meetings that revolve around basic information sharing (typically the recurring ones) like status updates or daily scrum can 100% be replaced with a written update. These are the meetings people hate.

A great meeting is when the right number of people discuss an ambiguous problem that requires a fast feedback loop (body language, tone, etc) in order to achieve the desired meeting outcome.

I'd also argue that poor documentation is a result of lack of structure (something asynchronous communication can provide much better vs. synchronous comm)