Set the expectation that no internal message requires a response in under 24 hours. (Exceptions for leadership or production issues). This removes the anxiety of the "pending bubble." When you know you have a day to reply, you work on your own terms.
However, to reduce to simply "not real-time" misses the point. It is a philosophy of intentional latency . It is the deliberate insertion of time and space between stimulus and response. The Hidden Cost of “Synchronous Default” To understand why we need to shift to working asynchronically , we must first diagnose the sickness of the modern office: the default to sync. asynchronically
To work means that there is a time lag between an action and a reaction. You send a message; your colleague replies two hours later. You record a video update; your team watches it while eating breakfast. You post a question on a forum; an expert answers it tomorrow. Set the expectation that no internal message requires
So, the next time you feel the buzz of an instant message, pause. Ask yourself: Does this need to happen now? Or can we do this ? However, to reduce to simply "not real-time" misses
In the modern lexicon of productivity, few words have undergone as radical a transformation as the adverb asynchronically .