February 8, 2021

Slack Solves The Wrong Problem Really Well

Or as Cal puts it …

“Slack is the Right Tool for the Wrong Way to Work.”

”The future of office work won’t be found in continuing to reduce the friction involved in messaging but, instead, in figuring out how to avoid the need to send so many messages in the first place.”

Cal Newport

Cal nails the problem I have with Slack that I have never managed to nail down.

Read the article in The New Yorker


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