What's your solution to the "prolific contributor lives in Australia with spotty dialup" problem he's proposing though? I love Slack and yet
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1. Hard cases make bad law 2. That problem exists in spades with email/irc, which are actually firehoses but pretend to be async
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What I mean by that is that in practice momentum can build rapidly on email threads, and waking up to the end of one of those threads 1/
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actually feels *worse* because at least on slack "let's wait for Sarah" is a thing that seems reasonable to say. Momentum is subtle. 2/2
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Sending that message, Sarah got pinged and "had to" join the conversation. Slack creates expectations due to its synchronous/instant nature.
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DND in Slack (et al) means (1) she isn't pinged; (2) people can see that right away. The problem is email pretends you can wait, 1/
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but that isn't always true. Momentum builds, and email etiquette doesn't have a good (polite) way to halt the conversation for someone 2/
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to chime in. 3/3
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Can we kill the meme that collaboration/communication tools are zero sum?
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who remembers google wave and the uncanny valley of operational transformation?
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" my employer makes a Slack alternative. " and closing this article
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Source?
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Exactly. Seems like we just haven’t solved the problem quite yet. Slack is as async as you want it but that can be awkward
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