Notes on how teams communicate
Short, practical writing from the Marlow team about threads, decisions, meetings and working across time zones.
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Write the decision down, then close the thread
Most team chat problems are not about speed. They are about answers that nobody can find a week later.
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8 min read
How we run a remote team across five time zones
Twenty four people from Portland to Lisbon, and a rule that nothing important happens only in a call.
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Fewer meetings, more threads: what changed in a quarter
We cut our recurring meetings from eleven to four. Here is what replaced them and what did not work.
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Search is a product, not a feature
Why we rebuilt search around decisions and files, not just messages.
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A calmer first week for new hires
The onboarding checklist we use, and the three channels every new teammate joins on day one.
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Async by default does not mean slow
Response time expectations we write down, and why they made the team faster, not slower.
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