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This is one of those posts where I cannot work out if this is earnest or satire. I kept waiting for a punchline but I don't know if it ever came. Makes me suspe
by throwaway150 10mo ago
This is one of those posts where I cannot work out if this is earnest or satire. I kept waiting for a punchline but I don't know if it ever came. Makes me suspect the whole thing was the punchline.
- groestl 10mo agoFWIW, we use Slack in that way, and it works.
- antonvs 10mo agoIt seems serious. I can only imagine it’s referring to a pretty small company. I suppose it can be tempting to do everything with one tool. I’ve seen some slack maximalism before, like using Slack as a primary operations platform - sending alerts and so forth to it, and nowhere else. But then that company hired a real engineering manager.
- simianwords 10mo agoim not sure what you mean - bigger companies also use the slack maximalist approach.
- antonvs 10mo agoI’m not just talking about heavy use of slack, I’m talking about maximalism as described in the article. Larger organizations will typically have several different systems to perform many of the functions described in the article, and it generally wouldn’t make sense to replicate that functionality, but worse, in slack. It would quickly become unmanageable, because slack simply isn’t designed for that. Heck, slack is barely designed for its own core functionality - e.g. its thread support is incredibly limited.
- knuckleheads 10mo agoI took it seriously and wrote up the reply that came from my gut: https://substack.com/@zackmaril/note/c-185137941 https://substack.com/@zackmaril/note/c-185137941 Why does one really need a slack channel to ask people if they want to go for a walk? Why not walk around and ask people if they want to take a walk?
- mirekrusin 10mo agoRemote team?
- knuckleheads 10mo agoDo remote teams take walks together ;)
- outofpaper 10mo agoMaybe if they are also using AR glasses and bring slack with them... They need a currently taking a walk channel.
- knuckleheads 10mo agoAh, how silly of me to overlook that option.
- mirekrusin 10mo agoIf you think about it "dog/whatever walking together" on a huddle could work quite well.
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