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Wavelength, published by Asana
- stuartaxelowen 10y agoLove the piece on Work-Life balance being a fractal. I think you can generalize it for variety of "subjects" for your mind - sometimes work feels better than holiday, and sometimes that book at a coffee shop is exactly the perspective you needed to keep going.
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoThe title doesn't help you guess what you're clicking into, I might gloss it as "Wavelength, a company blog, by Asana, a time-tracking app co."
- andygcook 10y agoGood point. I just took the title tag of the page. Looks like the mods changed it.
- mgberlin 10y agoPlease don't hijack my back button with your annoying "subscribe" modal.
- danielhunt 10y agoThat behaviour is frustratingly frustrating. A few colourful words were uttered because of their shady, terrible UX choice. And all for a few extra email addresses? God damnit, what the hell is wrong with people?
- VexorLoophole 10y agoMy main problem with things like Asana is: How should i suggest such a thing for my company, when we will share super duper secret company stuff in there. There is simply no way to do this. Would love to see a nice and polished Team based software like asana, which doesnt feel 'unsafe' for company use.
- krisdol 10y agoSo you mean a self-hosted solution? What is inherently unsafe about it?
- A_Crazy_Idea 10y agoThere's no way to know. Maybe we should start with what is inherently safe.
- myowncrapulence 10y agoHosting trade secrets on a cloud-based service, where any Asana employees can monitor your activity, where Chinese hackers (yes, that fear-mongering term actually applies here) can get to your trade data, pre-copyrighted/patented ideas, etc etc is a terrible idea. If they sold the software maybe you could host it on-site, but having this on centralized servers with many other companies is incredibly risky and generates a huge target.
- sulam 10y agoWhat makes you think you're going to be able to secure your snowflake instance of Asana in a heterogenous environment better than they can where the costs of getting it wrong are the death of the company?
- nine_k 10y agoObscurity? An effort to break into a large cloud company storing thousands of interesting accounts has a bigger payout. Attempts to attack such a service will be made more often and with more sophistication than attacks on a smaller company only having one set of potentially interesting secrets. If your company really values its corporate info so much, it likely already has policies and expertise to secure its own servers. If not, maybe a cloud instance is safer.
- myowncrapulence 10y agoExactly, I even addressed this in my argument. People react and comment before digesting fully.
- finid 10y agoAsana does a very bad job of telling you what their product does, and I hate being prompted to sign up for something when I don't even know what the product does. Trello does a much better job with their products tours/info.
- freehunter 10y agoIt took me forever to realize it's a magazine. At least I'm fairly certain it's a magazine. Right? Okay I'm still not sure.
- tertius 10y agoYeah, I signed up and then whenever I go to start using it I'm too confused. Expecting project management but then not really getting it.
- l3m0ndr0p 10y agoThis thing they're selling sounds like a cult.
- Xyik 10y agoI'm actually super confused by what this is.
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- ttam 10y agohad to go into "About" to make sure I understood what it was Wavelength is a publication for teams who aspire to do great things together—through a mindful, purposeful approach. https://wavelength.asana.com/about/ https://wavelength.asana.com/about/
- jgalt212 10y ago> Wavelength is a publication for teams who aspire to do great things together—through a mindful, purposeful approach. The product may our may not be great, but that tagline is downright horrible. Engineers need to spend more time with marketing folks so that the value props of their products are correctly conveyed to the marketplace.
- freehunter 10y agoFrom reading a few articles, I get the feeling that this is made by marketers, for marketers. Engineering only comes into play because Asana is a software company, but I mean "Epic empowerment: distributing authority to everyone in your company"? That's 100% marketers talking to marketers. I don't think you're going to get much value from this.
- drewda 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_marketing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_marketing
- tomc1985 10y ago"A publication with purpose" Yeah, to make Asana money. Textbook 'outreach'
- deepakhj 10y agoNot sure what this is.
- yalogin 10y agoSo is this a blog like techcrunch? What is it?
- rch 10y agoSo it's blog, and one that hijacks the back button at that.
- flukus 10y agoSolved by noscript, at the cost of breaking what should be a basic html page.
- freehunter 10y agoA back swipe worked for me on Safari on a MacBook. I didn't try the back button, but I think it's the same action.