One-Line Compression: The Company That Killed Meetings

A startup killed its weekly Monday all-hands meeting. Instead, everyone shared a five-line weekly memo on Friday afternoon. At first many worried communication would break down, but the result was the opposite. In meetings, only the two or three loudest people spoke, but everyone wrote a memo. Speech drifted off in the moment, but writing remained, so even a new hire could catch up on context by reading past memos. When 90 minutes of meetings each week vanished, people used that time for actual work. The problem wasn't the amount of communication but its format.

Compress the core of the passage into one sentence of 15 words or fewer. Don't list the case's details (meeting, memo, 90 minutes)—keep only the principle this story is about.