Why I don’t answer most phone calls(medium.com)
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Why I don’t answer most phone calls
https://medium.com/@adrienjoly/why-i-don-t-answer-most-phone-calls-4a71e1418854
https://medium.com/@adrienjoly/why-i-don-t-answer-most-phone-calls-4a71e1418854
If it's urgent, the caller needs (or maybe just wants) to have it passed synchronously. Text message is asynchronous, so there's no indication of when you have received the message. This is totally unsuitable for urgent things. You got it backwards.
> Many phone calls I receive are for planning a meeting, or asking me to do something. But callers seem not to realize that [...]
It's your problem, not the caller's. Buy a tablet, or a bluetooth headset if you resist device dedicated to planning. Or insist on asynchronous communication to schedule things (this is actually mentioned in "solution" section).