[nottorp]

> Second, that five minute call is saving you 45m of text back-and-forth

Except five minute calls tend to last 60 minutes...

> pseudo-synchronous instant messaging is broadly preferred over synchronous calls.

Yep, you should go fully async.

[zls]

Haven’t had that problem with calls. People have had to learn how to politely end conversations probably about as long as we’ve been using language. Once you learn that, the calls don’t drag.

On the other hand, if a call takes five, ten, fifteen minutes for good reason, it would have been hours or even days of messages. How many times have you spent ten minutes helping fix a newbie’s dev environment, and afterward they say “wow, thanks, I’ve been stuck all morning”?

And those calls aren’t rare! Knowing how (and when) to use calls over messages has been one of the most useful “soft skills” in my career toolkit.