This speaks to me! I've worked on 3 different projects / workplaces in the last year where I've been the only talker on a Slack with 10s of people on it. Somet

This speaks to me! I've worked on 3 different projects / workplaces in the last year where I've been the only talker on a Slack with 10s of people on it. Sometimes I'll write 5-6 detailed messages in a day, talking about particular problems or updates on things I'm working on, and almost nothing from anyone else. These are in subject-specific channels (#network-engineering or #programmers or the like) where colleagues are subscribed. But the real business of each company seemed to happen in private group chats or video meetings, with no long-term records. I'm like to state a problem before I've solved it, for the rubber ducking. Very occasionally someone would reply to help, and occasionally I reply with a :facepalm: if I realise I've just been hasty or sloppy. But even if nobody replies, I am very happy to have a public log of my work, the problems I've solved (or not), and the people I might tag for particular input. If someone DMs me for help with something that is possibly of interest to >1 person, I tend to re-state the issue (without identifying who asked me), then answer in public, and thank them for asking. If I have a question for a colleague, I will tend to ask it in a channel, as it becomes something searchable. I ask work questions on Stack Overflow for the same reason, and often self-answer because the place is dead as a community, but the search works well. After a few years I find my own answers as a complete surprise. But I have colleagues who've not said a line in public basically forever. I've not been a manager for years, always an IC lately. I've not had any objections, but it seems like nobody wants to join me to make "work in public" the default. Apparently I'm happy to be the exhibitionist little freak?