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>they start conversations and are interrupted It's not about interruption really, it's about a style of using chat apps that wastes peoples' attention and is e
by nmeofthestate 1y ago
>they start conversations and are interrupted
It's not about interruption really, it's about a style of using chat apps that wastes peoples' attention and is easily avoided.
> they receive hundreds of notifications
okay, so this nohello thing is good advice to help reduce the noise.
- pas 1y agonot to mention that if someone is supposed to be a professional coordinator, they would benefit from being a good communicator. starting a discussion with "hi" and disappearing for minutes is absolutely disrespectful and shitty, not to mention the opposite of efficient. they need to work on their time management.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 1y agoI mean, maybe I’m rude but if someone just messages me Hi on slack I simply ignore it until they send something more substantial.
- TeMPOraL 1y agoIt's fine unless the other person is your superior. Too many managers are oblivious to the fact that their authority over other people's futures makes every interaction threatening by default.
- ryandrake 1y agoI've always liked the band Kraftwerk's [past] strategy for dealing with interruptions, from their Wiki page[1]: "... anyone trying to contact the band for collaboration would be told the studio telephone did not have a ringer since, while recording, the band did not like to hear any kind of noise pollution. Instead, callers were instructed to phone the studio precisely at a certain time, whereupon the phone would be answered by Ralf Hütter, despite never hearing the phone ring." 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk