[mjevans]

Why are meetings better than records based (written, podcast, videos, whatever) asynchronous (remote friendly) discourse processes?

I've never been in a meeting that I consider productive. I've never been in a meeting that, in my opinion, couldn't have been done better with at least 90% of the time spent in the meeting completed by reviewing materials before the meeting and then signing off on them. Even that 10% could have been done with even an email / forum thread.

[Bluepacsky]

That is exactly my feeling! Yet I find most organizations do not implement async cultures and/or tools to run those processes. I feel that too often people do not want to do any upfront work to prepare an async discussion and rather expect everyone to do work by joining a meeting that could have been avoided. And then there is the social aspect that people rather want to talk via Zoom/Skype/Teams... than to write.