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They're just saying Slack creates an environment that makes it easy to be unproductive. So they made the right decision to not use it rather than force themselv
by AznHisoka 10y ago
They're just saying Slack creates an environment that makes it easy to be unproductive. So they made the right decision to not use it rather than force themselves to use up their "discipline energy" and use it properly.
It's like going on a diet and deciding not to have any junk food in the house rather than have it around and force yourself to be disciplined.
An entirely valid (and correct) approach.
- kordless 10y agoAnd what of those that don't need to expend "discipline energy" whatever the fuck that is? Slack is not the problem, nor the removal of it the solution. This is corporate bullshit in action.
- AznHisoka 10y agoThen go ahead and use Slack. To each his own. For Vice it obviously didn't cultivate a productive environment.
- jkoebler 10y agoYeah, I think this is right (I'm on the Motherboard team), I'm the one who made the "silo" comment. I think Derek's point in the article about Slack making it easy to disguise structural / workflow problems is very true. We don't hate slack and I'm sure we'll go back to using it, but by stripping down to nothing, it made the flaws in our workflow / approach more obvious. Now when we go back to it, hopefully we'll use it in a much different way. Frankly, I hope we don't ever go back or go back in a much scaled down way, but I'm not expecting that long term.