Founders/Leaders, how do you communicate with your team?
Conversations during work. One one ones (I used to go for a walk with some members and we&#x27;d just talk. It was extremely practical especially during some hard times where you change the frame&#x2F;context&#x2F;place of the conversation and take it outside the office. The amount of things that would have went untold is impressive when you&#x27;re far from a laptop you can hug and interruptions).<p>Emails. Putting thoughts processes, plan&#x2F;roadmap, in writing exposes them to be deconstructed, torn down, reconstructed, debated, and assimilated. Strategy, business model, which features and why, what to ignore, what to focus on, tradeoffs, meeting notes they didn&#x27;t attend with investors, prospect clients or partners, accounting or legal.<p>Wikis and knowledge bases. Each project has a wiki and whenever someone learns things that directly serve the project, they add it. To make sure I do it, I add issues to taskwarrior to decrease the friction to ingest&#x2F;acquire info and useful things[0] with issues that say &quot;Add X to Wiki&quot; with tags and by project. Then move them from taskwarrior to the Wiki in a batch.<p>Working on a company Handbook which is a sort of &quot;Operating Manual&quot; for the company that contains as many details as I can on everything one needs to know to operate it (from legal information, bank accounts, hiring procedure and onboarding, firing, where to pay taxes, how to fill checks, etc.). I wrote these down when I used to do things myself so anyone who would help on these matters would know where to start.<p>Sharing what I learn with them and learning what they&#x27;ve learned in impromptu conversations or mini hacking sessions or code snippets. Talking shop, code reviews and refactoring, debugging together. Getting help from them debugging something and vice-versa.<p>Emails. Again. Writing things down. I&#x27;d think something has settled in until I&#x27;m proven it hasen&#x27;t yet.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21545767" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=21545767</a>