The challenge of listening, really listening, before responding, and in asynchronous time having time to really process the whole before trying to respond to the parts is a helpful way of pointing out how the internet might change some of our interactive processes.

And I also find it interesting that in my practice I do still sometimes start to work on the response to the first statement, without waiting to see the following statements, even when they are there, and available. Some of that is almost as if I want to get my thought that responded to the first statement out, while it is there, new and fresh, and not yet having to be amended and adjusted to consider what else the other person has said, which might in the end mean that I have nothing to say, and nothing to add to what they had said, and successfully explained and substantiated.