Well, in the era of 21st century, in the era of IoT, connected commerce, connected this, connected that — it’s very strange to complain about being, uhm, connected. You are probably carrying your phone around with notifications dropping onto it every other minute — that doesn’t bother you. Same with Slack. Choose notifications schemes carefully, learn to skim through channels for the necessary information.

I totally disagree about the “feeling of being overwhelmed”. Yes, the asynchronousness of Slack is actually one of its greatest benefits, the ability to access your conversation history on the go and from whatever device is awesome, so is lack of need of having special client software.

The fact that you can _choose_ when to answer your e-mail or schedule a meeting, doesn’t necessarily dictate a problem with Slack, rather with the way you organized your work around it. 10 teams? Well, sure you’ll spend most of your either work day or free time catching up. But do you really _care_ about those 10? Might make sense to cut down to the ones you DO care about instead of the ones you THINK you care about? Choose your time to answer general inquiries or participate in careless banter vs time to answer urgent stuff.

Slack changed practically nothing from the mid 90’s when everyone was hooking up on IRC and chatting there. Slack made it much easier to keep all of the communications in one place. With ability to search on top of it.

Slack removed the barrier for a lot of people to use online real-time communications by making it accessible for everyone.

Slack didn’t teach everyone to adapt to this new lifestyle. That’s something you’ll have to do on your own.