For a startup in India, we literally run on whatsapp and slack. There is constant pinging and notifications about anything and everything.

Don’t miss out is the key and information overload is the tradeoff.

Owen, your piece is great and it makes me realize that by being “always-answerable” we might not be giving adequate attention to the complex tasks.

Putting a framework for sane usage in practice. Thank you for sharing ☺

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