Why not one common channel?
If you're remote, ramble
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#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
Suspicious that it's probably a massive hangover rather than "a cold". And I assume it's during the week, otherwise noone but your liver cares what you do on a Friday or Saturday evening. "A cold" doesn't usually totally incapacitate someone working from the comfort of their home, down a paracetamol, drink hot liquids, take a nap, don't need to be 110% productive but still can manage to get some job done. But "a mass…
Are you sure you aren’t projecting your substance abuse issues onto others? Assuming someone has a hangover in the middle of the week is odd behaviour
>> Assuming someone has a hangover in the middle of the week is odd behaviour
Sure, this never happens. Literally, noone in the history of mankind has gotten wasted in the middle of the week.
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#303I'm with the other commenters who agree in spirit, but would hate the details in the post. Assigned channels where you are expected to post your random thoughts feels utterly dystopian to me. In my experience, "rambling" channels build up organically... as you have a thought, you share it with someone relevant, not just drop it into a channel and see who reads it. Over time, small group chats evolve naturally, and as…
Overlooked in this recap is a telling line from later in the article:
> We have no scheduled meetings, so ramblings are our equivalent of water cooler talk. We want as much deep focus time as possible, so ramblings help us stay connected while minimizing interruptions.
Emphasis in the quote is mine, to call attention specifically to the fact that this is what Obsidian is doing instead of standups.
Taken in that vein, it sounds positively miraculous to me.
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#304Let me share a personal story. Back in 2014 when I was working at Cloudflare on DDoS mitigation I collaborated a lot with a collage - James (Jog). I asked him loads of questions, from "how to login to a server", via "what is anycast" to "tell me how you mitigated this one, give me precise instructions you've run". I quickly realised that these conversations had value outside the two of us - pretty much everyone else…
Fwiw, Marek's technical corner still exists and still gets some activity.
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#305I'm with the other commenters who agree in spirit, but would hate the details in the post. Assigned channels where you are expected to post your random thoughts feels utterly dystopian to me. In my experience, "rambling" channels build up organically... as you have a thought, you share it with someone relevant, not just drop it into a channel and see who reads it. Over time, small group chats evolve naturally, and as…
Hack Club, the largest Slack instance I’ve ever been a part of, has a culture of personal channels and it is incredibly organic and fun. It’s largely restricted to students under 18, though!
I feel like it’s a common pattern that organically forms. People want to express themselves, they don’t want to distract group chats, so they make a space to do it.
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I don't like it in "channels" either because it's too random. What I started years ago at a previous company who was using Confluence (yuck, I know), as the knowledge base was to have a "Personal Space" where I created internal blog posts. I still do it at my new place using their tools. What I do is more "bloggy" and than "rambly". When I'm considering a refactor, I write up my thoughts in English (which often…
Off topic, 10 years ago, I hated confluence and wanted my team to be able to continue using DokuWiki. Now, I've consulted at places that use Microsoft Teams file shares for their "documentation", and I feel like I'm back in 2005. Confluence would be a dream.
Confluence as well as other atlassian tools have evolved quite a bit, in the good direction (minus the ai fluff)
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, but Obsidian is a startup. A remote startup. If you're in a startup of I can see how this feels dystopian in a giant corporation, but that's because everyone is there for the paycheck. In a startup, people are making sacrifices to make the thing work. They could get a higher paying, less stressful job. Picking a startup and not being engaged is disruptive.
.. yet "being disruptive" is supposed to be the goal of a startup innit?
You want to disrupt the market, not the team.
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#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe Agile was one of these things, but then a bunch of people started doing it literally.
Other way round, i think. The original form had a lot of weird practices which actually worked. The form most common today is just lip service.
The weird practices worked as reported, but as an accident of the context where they arose. Outside that, they're about as robust as really rare orchids, which I think to their credit the authors realized, hence all the "don't take our word for it!" with which they hedged around their wildly bestselling school of management consultancy.
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#309Reads like pro-tips for middle management avoiding losing knowledge captured in DMs from layoffs
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#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm with the other commenters who agree in spirit, but would hate the details in the post This seems to happen a lot: Someone writes some highly exaggerated career advice that has good intent at the core but turns into overly weird suggestions by the end. They might be trying to be memorable or to make an impact by exaggerating the advice. Then some people, often juniors, take it literally and start practicing it.…
Maybe Agile was one of these things, but then a bunch of people started doing it literally.
> but then a bunch of people started doing it literally
Most people doing "agile" do literally the opposite of what is on the manifesto.