The conversation was great.
You aligned.
Everyone understood.
You walked out
feeling clear.
A week later
nobody remembers it the same way.
Spoken words evaporate.
The clearest meeting in the world
leaves no trace
you can point to later.
So write it down.
Not to be formal.
To make the understanding survive
past the moment
that produced it.
A short note.
What we decided.
Who's doing what.
By when.
It feels almost unnecessary
in the glow of a good conversation.
It is the difference
between a decision that holds
and one that quietly dissolves.
And it does something else.
Writing it down
outlives you.
The person who joins next month,
the you of six months from now —
they weren't in the room.
The note is how you talk to them.
Say it out loud to align.
Write it down to make it last.
The best communicators
do both.
– Asael Shinder
