We ditched weekly standup + planning meetings in favor of a shared Google Doc template where people write what they're doing, blockers, and next moves. async first, sync only when stuck.

sounds chaotic. it actually worked better than expected, but not for the reasons i thought.

the win: devs stopped waiting for decisions. if you need something resolved, you write it down with context and tag whoever owns it. decisions happen in 2-4 hours instead of waiting for a meeting. we shipped a go service that would've sat in limbo for a sprint because one person was on vacation. nobody cared. just shipped it.

the hard part: you need discipline. nobody reads a doc that's poorly organized. we lost like two weeks with people writing walls of text that nobody engaged with. we added a dead simple structure.

## what shipped
- feat: user auth cache layer

## what's blocking
- waiting on infra to review db migration

## next 3 days
- implement batch job for sync

also killed off "discussion sync" meetings. if the doc doesn't answer your question, you ask in slack synchronously. way less theater.

downsides: harder to onboard new people, and you lose the "random great idea" moments from seeing everyone's faces. we solve that with biweekly in-person planning.

shipped 40% faster. no idea if that lasts.