Context is something I’ve found constantly challenging in a number of roles over the years. It often seems under-valued. While the ideal might be a well-struct

Context is something I’ve found constantly challenging in a number of roles over the years. It often seems under-valued. While the ideal might be a well-structured team wiki where decisions and their context are recorded in full, in practice those tend to end up de-prioritised and poorly-maintained. They just don’t reflect the way people actually work. With the growth of remote work, the mass adoption of the context-free Slack model of team chat feels like one of our biggest problems. The threading model of apps like Quill (now gone), Zulip and Twist (and even email) feel like a better solution because they explicitly place context next to decision. They’re not perfect, but they’re much more likely to stay relevant than a wiki.