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My main gripe with so much of the communication moving to Slack is that a lot of highly technical discussion moves into synchronous chat, and that removes the e
by munchbunny 5y ago
My main gripe with so much of the communication moving to Slack is that a lot of highly technical discussion moves into synchronous chat, and that removes the expectation which email often carried that the author spends time organizing their thoughts into clear linear writing.
Of course emails don't always come out coherently either, but my personal experience has been that moving into the streamed sentences model overall reduces the amount of effort put into organizing thoughts before communicating.
- xyzzy_plugh 5y agoI think this is on the money. Often in my career I find myself on the other side of an opinion after noodling on it for a while. The process of typing out a long-winded email, realizing the hole in your argument, then saying Fuck It, deleting it and instead replying LGTM, is a powerful instrument. Everyone wins when discourse is more thoughtful.