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Wow. From my perspective, this conversation is a horrifying, worst-case, absolute work communication disaster. Six messages spanning three distinct days to get
by civilized 5y ago
Wow. From my perspective, this conversation is a horrifying, worst-case, absolute work communication disaster. Six messages spanning three distinct days to get to the point! And how long did each person sit waiting for a reply, or sit waiting without a solution to their problem?
In proper async communication, you give the complete message in one shot. Like in email. That to me is way, way more important than whether you say hello (although definitely feel free to open with that).
If you just say "hello", it's basically telling the recipient "I am trying to get your attention to have a synchronous conversation". Which is obviously antithetical to an efficient async culture. Especially if you take THREE FREAKING DAYS to finish the conversation you implied would be synchronous.
- outsidetheparty 5y agoYes, that appears to be the point of the site.
- prax2 5y agoAmusingly the original timestamps were much more synchronous. A PR from a 3rd party changed that: https://github.com/sammessina/yeshello/pull/1/files https://github.com/sammessina/yeshello/pull/1/files
- civilized 5y agoWe're dealing with an incredibly powerful troll here.
- jcelerier 5y ago> Six messages spanning three distinct days to get to the point! And how long did each person sit waiting for a reply, or sit waiting without a solution to their problem? that's assuming that the point of being at a job is indeed to do a job, and not to give us a semblance of socialization in a capitalistic system with millions of people working bullshit jobs > Which is obviously antithetical to an efficient async culture. efficient async culture is maybe antithetical to many human beings
- bhelkey 5y agoThe point is to replace these six messages with a single message: Hi, I'm working on [project] and ran into [issue].