One possible solution: erring on the side of having conversations online.
This could be taken to a stronger extreme than “erring on the side of”—two people hanging out in person could just text message each other instead of talking. That does sound extreme, but perhaps it could be appropriate in some scenarios. One benefit is that, by using something like LW, you could utilize threads and thus better keep track of things in the conversation. Sometimes when I’m having an in person conversation I’ll open up a Google Doc and create an outline of the conversation for both conversation members to look at.
I personally find conversations in person to be much more efficient and positive valence, such that if I talk to someone occasionally in real life and often on the internet I tend to save topics I think will be relatively important / high value for in person discussion.
In contrast I find internet conversation is often more conducive to fishing for high value ideas, since there’s so much more input.
This isn’t to say that high value conversations can’t happen on the internet or that that style might not be sufficient for some people, but I don’t think I could make texting someone next to me work for me. As an example, in past experience I’ve found myself crossing the office to make / elaborate on requests initially made over chat.
One possible solution: erring on the side of having conversations online.
This could be taken to a stronger extreme than “erring on the side of”—two people hanging out in person could just text message each other instead of talking. That does sound extreme, but perhaps it could be appropriate in some scenarios. One benefit is that, by using something like LW, you could utilize threads and thus better keep track of things in the conversation. Sometimes when I’m having an in person conversation I’ll open up a Google Doc and create an outline of the conversation for both conversation members to look at.
I personally find conversations in person to be much more efficient and positive valence, such that if I talk to someone occasionally in real life and often on the internet I tend to save topics I think will be relatively important / high value for in person discussion.
In contrast I find internet conversation is often more conducive to fishing for high value ideas, since there’s so much more input.
This isn’t to say that high value conversations can’t happen on the internet or that that style might not be sufficient for some people, but I don’t think I could make texting someone next to me work for me. As an example, in past experience I’ve found myself crossing the office to make / elaborate on requests initially made over chat.