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How I run async standups for distributed teams

Mar 14, 2026#communication

Daily standup as a meeting is a tax on focus time. The information is rarely worth the synchronisation cost, especially across time zones.

We post three lines in a thread instead: what I shipped yesterday, what I'm doing today, what I'm blocked on. Anyone reading at any time gets the state of the team. Blockers turn into sub-threads with the right person, not a 30-minute group meeting.

Two rules make it work: post by a specific local time (mine: end of working day), and treat blockers as the only mandatory line.