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Slack to record meeting decisions? That has to be the most ridiculous proposition ever. Slack is a chat system, not supposed to become a knowledge repository or even remotely made for capturing meeting notes. Using effective tools for the job matter.
I agree with the author's crusade against pointless meetings, but their attack on email doesn't sit well with me. > Avoid email loops. Those have too much overhead, and will divide your audience pretty quickly. The author recommends "async slack" in a cartoon, but then advises against using email -- which is IMO far superior to "async slack" in every way possible. Mailing lists are severely under valued in corporate…
The problem with an email loop is it has no visibility to newcomers. If you create a channel for a particular topic, then when someone new joins the team, you can point them to that channel to catch up.
What happens is that someone new joining the team will not even bother searching thru dozens of channels, they will use the chat system to ask questions instead. Completely failure of knowledge management.
I agree with the author's crusade against pointless meetings, but their attack on email doesn't sit well with me. > Avoid email loops. Those have too much overhead, and will divide your audience pretty quickly. The author recommends "async slack" in a cartoon, but then advises against using email -- which is IMO far superior to "async slack" in every way possible. Mailing lists are severely under valued in corporate…
I agree with the author's crusade against pointless meetings, but their attack on email doesn't sit well with me. > Avoid email loops. Those have too much overhead, and will divide your audience pretty quickly. The author recommends "async slack" in a cartoon, but then advises against using email -- which is IMO far superior to "async slack" in every way possible. Mailing lists are severely under valued in corporate…
I see the note at the top of the post that it's meant to be extreme and satirical, but a lot of people actually try to substitute Slack for a meeting or quick zoom call and I think it's incredibly counter productive. The efficiency of verbal communication should be prioritized any time a Slack thread goes beyond ~10 replies. Slack is where work goes to die; not meetings.
Without some kind of guard rails through norms or framing, any communication, including a meeting, can get unproductive fast.
I see the note at the top of the post that it's meant to be extreme and satirical, but a lot of people actually try to substitute Slack for a meeting or quick zoom call and I think it's incredibly counter productive. The efficiency of verbal communication should be prioritized any time a Slack thread goes beyond ~10 replies. Slack is where work goes to die; not meetings.
If people are talking past each other on trivial matters, sure a call should be faster. Or if the core issue is to take a simple decision or iron internal politics.
If it’s a complex issue that needs input from a number of people, with resources and/or documentation to consult, and a need for well thought input vs. random babbling, participants should actively fight the urge to move to a call IMO.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
One argument that I could imagine (not sure that I'm supporting it) to prefer slack over mail: usage patterns for a shared email channel are far more individual than for a branded async medium like slack. With mail, some people will do elaborate filtering, others just dump everything in a single inbox. Some will use mail very close to real-time (perhaps even do all their mail hands-off through some Siri/Alexa/whateve…
>usage patterns for a shared email channel are far more individual than for a branded async medium like slack on the other hand this can also be argued as a strength of email (which is what I would do) because different people need different usage patterns to work optimally, by forcing people into a one size fits all solution you will ensure some people will work less well than others.
This piece is a collection of disjointed claims and complaints. There is little in the way of argumentation to support any of them (and nothing in the way of evidence). The existence of a valid opposing view on each of these claims isn't even acknowledged. Then there's that the content is disjointed from the title. Clickbait is evil. TBH I don't get why this post floated to HN top. Especially when there are so many b…