Presentation, why Slack SUCKS for remote work
I didn't want to talk about Slack... but I must
I can no longer ignore the problems with it.
not that I've tried much...
Slack sucks for Remote work
There... I said it.
Why is this?
Because it wasn't built for it.
Slack was built to remotely tap people on the shoulder
it's a, "Joe isn't sitting at his desk" problem.
Like when you're at home, enjoying your family.
Well if it sucks so much... why do people use it?
Simple, it's better than email.
Email sucks for the following reasons:
1) Email is FILLED with "spam"
newsletters, app engagement, marketing). 99% of email clients do nothing to stop this.
2) Email isn't transparent
meaning the only way to get information is to have people send it to you. This means a lot of silos.
3) Dear listener, Email caused people to be overly formal, Sincerely Gage.
People started noticing problems with it...
I’m finding that “always on” tendency to be a self-perpetuating feedback loop: the more everyone’s hanging out, the more conversations take place. The more conversations, the more everyone’s expected to participate. Lather, rinse, repeat.
99 inboxes, take one down pass it around...
All day meetings...
supreme irony: While it has replaced the tyranny of email for many, it has unleashed a chaotic tyranny of its own.
Posts and their responses pour in so fast that even
being away from Slack for a couple of hours can leave you feeling hopelessly behind.
How fast you can glean information from this?
What about this?
Instant is problem
People think it's all the rage...
Yet it leaves you feeling like this
Slack made the writer happy 😌
Now you can get answers sooo much faster!
But... the reader far less 🥵
Now you have to answer soo much faster!
The Solution: An App that supports real threaded conversations
Slack threads are better than nothing...
But they don't solve the real problem.
We need to be given us a space to fully discuss complex ideas and projects from start to finish to give more meaningful feedback to promote transparency in our decision-making and to disconnect to do the deep work that we’re truly excited about. Source--Betting Against Slack