I was at a company called Amco a few years ago. It was my first Senior position outside of running my own company. The VP of Engineering there (Jason King) taught us something he called “asynchronous communication”. It’s the concept that sharing information globally and digitally is more efficient than individually & physically. By sharing with more people, and in a way that they can respond as convenient to them, you optimize the quality and quantity of feedback you can receive. When everyone does this, it make everyone better. It definitely made me better and I think Netflix will get better if we all start practicing asynchronous communication. Ways we can do this are:

• Remote pair programming tools that support multiple people
• Google Docs
• Frequent pull requests