Comment by gilbetron

Remote work is great. Async work is generally slow and terrible, at least for the pace that you need to achieve to succeed. Many people equate remote work with async, when that isn't the case. Talking to people achieves results faster. Async work is ponderous and is the lowest common denominator when you can't do anything synchronous. Async can help synchronous work somewhat, and is an important component, but not the primary component.