My background is in hanging around 100+ IRC channels which is probably why I never have felt Slack distracting a bit. I have notifications on for only direct @s

My background is in hanging around 100+ IRC channels which is probably why I never have felt Slack distracting a bit. I have notifications on for only direct @s and I can postpone any interactions accordinly when needed. Compared to that emails (and Basecamps and such) feel anxious: tens and tens of different information cramped in a long form text and the expectation us to handle all of them at once and as soon as possible, after all it’s email. And then again I know of people that have it completely other way around and I understand that. I also think that there’s no solution for that in software form, but in behaviour: we need to embrace the asyncronisity.