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I realise your post is in jest, but I've found that responsive slack (due to a similar machine upgrade) has actually had a noticeably positive effect on my prod
by nicoburns 5y ago
I realise your post is in jest, but I've found that responsive slack (due to a similar machine upgrade) has actually had a noticeably positive effect on my productivity. Checking a slack notification is now a ~2-5 second task, quick enough that I can switch back to my task with losing context. It used to be more like 10-20 seconds if my machine was under load which was highly disruptive.
- steveBK123 5y agoI do not in any way post in jest. Slack is an abomination. Slack is all the bad organizational behavioral issues of email, except harder to filter with rules & with more sender-side options for creating noise for the recipient. It's lovely to send a slack and get quick response. It's a huge productivity killer to get dozens/100s of half-thoughts ad-hoc sent over IMs to individuals and blasted to groups. Is there a massive production outage? (I care about) Did someone just share a funny GIF? Is Bob helping Jim debug a firewall issue for a client? (none of which I care about) I got that stupid red dot, hard to tell without checking.