pick-the-mediumlisted

# Pick the Medium Most communication overhead is not a bad meeting or a bad message. It is the wrong one: a decision that needed five minutes of back-and-forth got a thirty-minute meeting, or a call that needed everyone's live reaction got a message three people didn't open until the next day. The failure this exists to prevent: **choosing the medium out of habit ("let's hop on a call" or "I'll just send a quick message") before asking what the decision actually needs.** That is not a communication-skills problem. It is a design problem, and it is cheap to fix before the invite or the message goes out, expensive to fix after. --- ## What this needs **Minimum: what needs to get decided or conveyed, and roughly who is involved.** It will produce a medium and the reasoning, and mark what it had to assume. **Better with** how reversible the decision is, whether the people involved are in the same timezone, and whether this is one-off or something that will come up again in this shape. **Best with** what happened last time something like this was handled the wrong way: a meeting that should have been a message, or a message thread that dragged for days because it needed a call. --- ## Step 1: Name what actually has to happen Not "what is this about", what has to be true when it's over. A decision made. Information transferred one direction. Multiple people's reactions gathered at the same time. Something in writing that can be pointed back to later. These need different