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Is async for everyone? [slides]

8 points by clmntrg 5y ago

ribit 5y ago
I cringed so hard looking through this. What's wrong with people?
- dimgl 5y ago
  This is a low effort comment, but I agree. Who does this appeal to? Managers?
  - clmntrg 5y ago
    Remote workers looking for a job, or managers in a remote company. While working at a company that builds an alternative to meetings, calls and office-friendly practices, I had lots of questions about "would this work for me?". Or people were saying "async seems promising, but I'm sure it's only for developers". This is untrue. I take the design is not your taste, I'll pass this feedback to the team. Thanks Dimgl
OJFord 5y ago
This is really just advertising (little content in the slides) for Slite [0]. Looks at a brief glance that it might be interesting, probably a better URL for the submission than the current slide deck [1]. In fact, @clmntrg, from your submission history I gather Slite is yours (a few submissions about it on blogs/reddit) - why not 'Show HN: Slite - the workspace for async teams' (slite.com link)? I'm sure it would be better received than these 'pitch.com' slides. [2] [0] - https://slite.com https://slite.com [1] - (in case it is updated) https://app.pitch.com/app/public/player/5fa67ab4-b618-46dd-a2a0-886c03636953 https://app.pitch.com/app/public/player/5fa67ab4-b618-46dd-a... [2] - (examples in case you don't know what I mean) https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show
- clmntrg 5y ago
  Hey, thanks for taking the time to leave feedback on the post – harsh but I'll take it. I wanted to figure out a way to TLDR a blog piece we wrote about what profiles fit best in async environments, from our won experience. Seems like the format doesn't work well, I'll pass that to the team. Have a great day
canadianwriter 5y ago
I thought this was building up to: here is who it's NOT good for and how to help them. But it doesn't. It just says it's great for everyone. Which it obviously isn't... It's good for some, horrible for others.
- pdinny 5y ago
  I was also disappointed by this overly simplistic and cheerful view. Async communication, like most things, isn't equally well-suited to all scenarios (never mind people). I worked in a primarily async environment and while I, as an individual, like many aspects of this manner of work it is sometimes a terribly inefficient way to get things done. In some instances a meeting with a handful of people can save you weeks of back and forth on Slack, each time with a bunch of context switching.
- clmntrg 5y ago
  Please read again, it doesn't work for everyone. The TLDR from our own experience is that it's hard to make it work for juniors.
ReactiveJelly 5y ago
I guess they mean async communication between humans, not async as in the JS / C# / Rust language feature?
mattknightlewis 5y ago
When I was getting my friend hired at the company I work at now, she asked "what is the workplace culture like?" I told her "There is none." Her response: "Oh thank God."

8 points by clmntrg 5y ago

ribit 5y ago

I cringed so hard looking through this. What's wrong with people?

dimgl 5y ago
This is a low effort comment, but I agree. Who does this appeal to? Managers?
- clmntrg 5y ago
  Remote workers looking for a job, or managers in a remote company. While working at a company that builds an alternative to meetings, calls and office-friendly practices, I had lots of questions about "would this work for me?". Or people were saying "async seems promising, but I'm sure it's only for developers". This is untrue. I take the design is not your taste, I'll pass this feedback to the team. Thanks Dimgl

OJFord 5y ago

This is really just advertising (little content in the slides) for Slite [0]. Looks at a brief glance that it might be interesting, probably a better URL for the submission than the current slide deck [1]. In fact, @clmntrg, from your submission history I gather Slite is yours (a few submissions about it on blogs/reddit) - why not 'Show HN: Slite - the workspace for async teams' (slite.com link)? I'm sure it would be better received than these 'pitch.com' slides. [2] [0] - https://slite.com https://slite.com [1] - (in case it is updated) https://app.pitch.com/app/public/player/5fa67ab4-b618-46dd-a2a0-886c03636953 https://app.pitch.com/app/public/player/5fa67ab4-b618-46dd-a... [2] - (examples in case you don't know what I mean) https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show

clmntrg 5y ago
Hey, thanks for taking the time to leave feedback on the post – harsh but I'll take it. I wanted to figure out a way to TLDR a blog piece we wrote about what profiles fit best in async environments, from our won experience. Seems like the format doesn't work well, I'll pass that to the team. Have a great day

canadianwriter 5y ago

I thought this was building up to: here is who it's NOT good for and how to help them. But it doesn't. It just says it's great for everyone. Which it obviously isn't... It's good for some, horrible for others.

pdinny 5y ago
I was also disappointed by this overly simplistic and cheerful view. Async communication, like most things, isn't equally well-suited to all scenarios (never mind people). I worked in a primarily async environment and while I, as an individual, like many aspects of this manner of work it is sometimes a terribly inefficient way to get things done. In some instances a meeting with a handful of people can save you weeks of back and forth on Slack, each time with a bunch of context switching.
clmntrg 5y ago
Please read again, it doesn't work for everyone. The TLDR from our own experience is that it's hard to make it work for juniors.

ReactiveJelly 5y ago

I guess they mean async communication between humans, not async as in the JS / C# / Rust language feature?

mattknightlewis 5y ago

When I was getting my friend hired at the company I work at now, she asked "what is the workplace culture like?" I told her "There is none." Her response: "Oh thank God."