Further reading

Material for teams who want to go deeper

This list is offered as supplementary context, not a required syllabus. None of it replaces the exercises done during the live program, but it is useful for participants who want more background between sessions.

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Books on written and async communication

These titles focus on the mechanics of clear writing under time pressure, a skill that underpins most async communication.

  • Writing the Update: a short field guide on structuring status reports so they answer questions before they get asked.
  • The Handoff Note: practical patterns for passing work between timezones without a live call.
  • Say It Once: an essay collection on reducing repeated explanations across chat, email and meetings.
  • Default to Text: a longer treatment of when writing outperforms a live conversation, and when it does not.
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Frameworks and guides on documentation

Frameworks that go into more depth on structuring a knowledge base than module two of the program covers.

  • The Living Wiki Framework: a structural model for separating reference material from decision logs.
  • Documentation Debt: a diagnostic checklist for identifying which parts of an existing wiki have gone stale.
  • Decision Records for Small Teams: a lightweight template set for logging why choices were made, adaptable to most documentation tools.

Articles and essays on meeting design

Shorter pieces that expand on the meeting audit method used in module three.

The Recurring Meeting Audit

A step by step method for mapping a calendar full of standing meetings against what each one produces.

Agendas That End in a Decision

Notes on structuring an agenda so the meeting closes with something written down, not just a shared feeling of progress.

Sync Versus Async: A Decision Tree

A short flowchart-style essay for judging whether a topic needs a live conversation or a written thread.

Tool Sprawl and How It Happens

An essay on how teams accumulate overlapping tools one reasonable decision at a time, and how to notice it.

Internal templates worth adapting

Beyond published material, the program provides a set of internal templates participants can adapt directly: a weekly async update format, a decision log entry format, a meeting purpose statement, and a documentation ownership sheet. These are covered in detail during the relevant modules and included in the written playbook each team receives at the end of the program.