This means that increasingly async people will be able to output work of higher quality than sync people. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.' Async work means you can be alone with your own thoughts and go into a creative flow state also known as deep work: Cal Newport in Deep Work: 'the ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. While sync work is littered with distractions of people who want your attention. If you work async, you're unrestricted by timezones and can live wherever you want in the world Async for deep work It's difficult for Americans to work from Asia (8am in New York is 8pm in Taipei), and it's difficult for Europeans to work from America (8am in Amsterdam is 3am in New York).

Having to be on call at specific hours means you won't be able to travel or move to and live in different timezones.

If you work async, you can work at the most optimal times for you. Since the industrial revolution, we've been living in a society dominated by early birds while night owls have been getting a bad deal. Studies are increasingly proving people have different genetically predisposed chronotypes, meaning some people naturally wake up early in the morning, while others wake up closer to noon. 😤 Sync people are stuck w/ the weekend and pay the highest prices for overcrowded venues- ؜ MaAsync is life changing Async for sleep 😙 Async ppl can book fun activities throughout the week and get the lowest prices for hotels, restaurants, etc ➗ I'm starting to notice a divide between people that work async vs not Many of us who have been working remotely for the last decade have also been async because they go together well. But evaluating your performance stops being about showing up, it starts being about the quality of your work. You get a lot of responsibility and because of that you make sure you actually do great work. There's no manager looking over your shoulder, and you don't have to be on-call. With async you decide when you work, you're autonomous and the only thing that matters is if you get your work done. What is async?Īsync is short for asynchronous and in this case it means being able to work without having to wait for someone else to answer. What's the next thing after remote work is now mainstream? I think it's async work. We now have millions of people working remotely but most still have to work at specific hours, be on standby, take calls and attend virtual meetings. Most people don't want to go back to the office and I strongly believe most people won't go back to the office after the pandemic ends. With the pandemic suddenly shooting remote work into the mainstream, it seems like people are finally starting to believe the merits of remote work. It's been almost a decade now that we've all been promoting the benefits of remote work and location independent living.

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