Many people don't read emails, anything longer than a paragraph exceeds their limits. Send an email -> crickets.
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Yep, the developing ADD culture is terrifying. I'll occasionally write something like 2-3 short paragraphs (but long relative to average) in a ticket/PR/email. Later I'll read responses where it's obvious the author didn't make it past sentence one or two.
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I get what you’re saying, but referring to this as an “ADD culture” is inconsiderate of people who have ADD and can read emails just as well as you can.
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If policing of language continues this way we’re eventually going to reach a point where referring to anything as “idiotic” will be offensive to idiots. Why not just let people speak? It’s interesting to observe the complete deterioration of America’s free speech from afar.
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A key aspect of free speech is that if you choose to say something then others are equally free to respond with what they think, so I believe it’s working the way it’s meant to.
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@brandur - How do you mitigate this? What process do you put in place to ensure that decisions are effectively understood and documented so they can be referred to by affected stakeholders? (This is an honest, non-rhetorical question.) -
In my opinion: you use tried and true methods like design documents and mediums that encourage longform detail-oriented discussion be it a mailing list (e.g., Postgres Hackers mailing list), or issues/PRs/tickets (e.g., the Rust RFC repository on GitHub).
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your OP said you missed E-mail, which is suspiciously omitted here. the problem isn't the existence or lack thereof of E-mail. the problem isn't slack.
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“Mailing list” = e-mail.
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I am not sure that technical decisions should be made by a committee. The best organisations encourage engineers to listen to the opinions of stakeholders and peers but to take and own technical decisions.
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Too often engineers waste too much time getting the opinions of others because they are scared of failure. It’s often faster to move fast try things out and change them if they are broken.
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When I was at Airbnb briefly 9 people had to approve my network designs. I can't get 9 people to agree where to go for lunch. I put my notice in after 5 weeks.
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Don't people talk to each other anymore?
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They used to, before the hellscape that is open plan office
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Whatever happened to good old walking over to someone's cubicle and pressuring them to support your initiative?
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Social fatigue and an unwillingness to add even more to the misery of open plan. Add in distributed teams and how messed up people are in general, and there you go. But I digress, Slack has arisen out all the god damned open plan offices around the world.
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I really like architecture decision records (adr) for technical decision making. Pull request with the proposed decision. Discussion can be done in the PR.https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture_decision_record …
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I prefer this too, but I’ve seen a lot of PR threads that meander just as much as a Slack discussion. And you’re left staring at it wondering whether you should merge it or not.
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Consider using the advice process http://www.reinventingorganizationswiki.com/Decision_Making . Nominate someone in your team to carry it out. Bonus points for pairing them with a junior engineer.
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And, in both Slack and e-mail, often the participants are not even aware that a decision is being made. Much decision-making is emergent, and you only become aware of it after the fact.
ধন্যবাদ। আপনার সময়রেখাকে আরো ভালো করে তুলতে টুইটার এটিকে ব্যবহার করবে। পূর্বাবস্থায়পূর্বাবস্থায়
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লোড হতে বেশ কিছুক্ষণ সময় নিচ্ছে।
টুইটার তার ক্ষমতার বাইরে চলে গেছে বা কোনো সাময়িক সমস্যার সম্মুখীন হয়েছে আবার চেষ্টা করুন বা আরও তথ্যের জন্য টুইটারের স্থিতি দেখুন।