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Young ignorant founder here. If a good email practice can be obtained by taking all those measures, but slack doesn't need the understanding, training, policies
by haydenlee 10y ago
Young ignorant founder here. If a good email practice can be obtained by taking all those measures, but slack doesn't need the understanding, training, policies etc then surely slack is the better alternative. Just because it 'can be done' with email doesn't make it nonconditionally better.
- fit2rule 10y agoSo you'd rather give monkeys a golden hammer than train humans to use any tool effectively? Very interesting, young ignorant founder .. Hint: its the people, not the technology, that make all the difference in the world. Invest in the people and it won't matter what technology they use.
- jedsomers 10y agoIf tools are evaluated by their leverage, and if Slack needs less effort (in form of training, etc) to achieve the same result as email/IRC, then isn't it reasonable to suggest that Slack is better? However, I think it is interesting to think about the method they used to achieve that increased leverage. In Slack's case it may not be an entirely new set of features, but just more optimal designs and implementations of existing feature sets. Should that necessarily "count for less"? I would argue no, if tools are evaluated by their leverage.