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Jason Fried on solution to all-day, all-the-time group chat..   I came across this post from Jason Fried last week.   Jason, makes eloquent and persuasive argument that all-day group chat is poor way of working for remote teams..   I totally agree with Jason and have little to add, so I'll just synthesise the main points.   The argument goes with group chat, you feel pressured to always check, and always respond.   This limits your ability to focus on the in hand.   I just do not think it's the go-to tool...   Real-time sometimes, asynchronous most of the time..   Jason then goes on to run through bunch of rules and guidelines his team are using to implement this.   They include using Basecamp to facilitate slower communication as Basecamp I do agree it's well placed to solve this problem for remote teams..   Read more