You Have To Go Slow To Go Fast

Is synchronous, always-on communication eroding productivity and causing stress?

Stowe Boyd
Jan 19 · 3 min read
Photo by Nareeta Martin on Unsplash

Sean Hargrave takes a negative tack on Slack in How Slack ruined work, and really on work chat in general, citing the downside of synchronous, insistent communication:

“Technology advances usually supplant what has come before but Slack hasn’t, it’s…

Stowe Boyd

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