A 15 minute call where I’ll promptly forget what was said. I’ve got emails from years ago that I check back on regularly because I forgot some detail or another. I had a meeting a few hours ago where I’m already starting to forget what was discussed. I took notes, but they’re chicken scratch that attempted to get everything down on paper, only to prove to be illegible nonsense.

There’s two forces at work here.

The weekly meetings could often be an email, “Hope all is well, we’ve made steady progress on project X and no additional discussions is needed.”

But also so much can be solved so quickly, at work and otherwise, with one fucking quick phone call. People are getting so phone call adverse these days it’s wild.