Send a Video, Skip the Meeting

Your calendar is full of meetings that exist to move information from your screen into someone else's head. That does not require everyone to be in the same room at the same time — and once you know that, a large part of your week opens back up. This is a plain, practical guide to async screen video: recording a short walkthrough with your voice, sending a link, and letting people watch when it suits them. It is written for someone who is not a video person, is a little uncomfortable hearing their own voice, and mostly wants their working hours back. It does not pretend recordings replace conversations. Some things genuinely need a live human on the other end, and this book is specific about which ones. Inside: - A clear test for what belongs in a recording and what still needs a meeting - Setting up without buying anything, and why friction decides whether the habit survives - Structuring a recording so people watch it instead of closing the tab - Sounding like yourself, including what to do about the voice you hate hearing - Recording your screen without leaking notifications, tabs, or other people's data - Sharing so it actually gets watched, with captions, transcripts, and access set right - Feedback, walkthroughs, handoffs, and explanations you record once and reuse - Getting a team to adopt it, and working with people in other time zones Every idea is taught by what it does and why, not by a menu path or a screenshot, so it survives your tool's next update. Record it, send it, get on with your work.