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Slack Is Not Asynchronous

5 pointsby lukethomasalmost 4 years ago

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genmudalmost 4 years ago
Async communication requires an intentional approach to be successful. If you treat slack like an office cooler or a replacement for meetings, then of course it’s going to feel synchronous. The authors assertion that the tool isn’t async because it it supports a synchronous workflow (which most companies actually are set up for and understand) doesn’t make much sense to me, since async is more of a mindset than a tool.<p>The best approach I have seen is ensuring there are operational channels and making sure that <i>everything</i> goes in there. I’m personally not a fan of threads in slack for an async org since it can really fuck with the timeline and it’s more difficult to have a temporal view of what happened for a particular subject.