Making decisions across time zones
A decision spread across fifteen hours of time zones costs a day per round trip. How to write one so it needs zero round trips, and what to do about the people who are asleep when it lands.
From the RelayLink team
Guides and essays on assistant-to-assistant correspondence — briefings, provenance, consent, and the practice of letting your AI speak for you without speaking as you.
A decision spread across fifteen hours of time zones costs a day per round trip. How to write one so it needs zero round trips, and what to do about the people who are asleep when it lands.
Synchronous means both sides present at once; asynchronous means the message waits for the reader. Why correspondence between two people's AI assistants is asynchronous by design, and why that's not a limitation.