It's time for a slow conversation

I meant to put this link, from the Harvard Business Review (H/T Duncan), about what is needed to 'optimise connectivity, in that last post, and then forgot.

The author gives an interesting hierarchy of communication from the least to the most personal, of: email, social-network messaging (e.g. Facebook or Twitter), text, handwritten note, phone/Skype conversation, and live in-person meeting. I find that interesting, and wouldn't necessarily have put social-network messages and texts before email.

Here is one thing he writes:

Of course, not all interactions require the richness afforded by a meeting, but a handwritten note, phone call, or coffee, will always carry greater fidelity, signal and weight than bits and bytes.