Slack
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- Dan, stop encouraging it … From 2014, she was responsible for moulding, evolving and shaping the voice of Slack, and since leaving in 2020, has worked with Apple, Airbnb, Atlassian and a bunch …
- What does recording even mean?; Do it stupid first … From 2014, she was responsible for moulding, evolving and shaping the voice of Slack, and since leaving in 2020, has worked with Apple, Airbnb, Atlassian and a bunch …
- Did you try the app? … From 2014, she was responsible for moulding, evolving and shaping the voice of Slack, and since leaving in 2020, has worked with Apple, Airbnb, Atlassian and a bunch …
- Neal Stephenson is leaking again; When computer isn’t computer … From 2014, she was responsible for moulding, evolving and shaping the voice of Slack, and since leaving in 2020, has worked with Apple, Airbnb, Atlassian and a bunch …
- What Are We Doing Here, Exactly?; LLMs Are Playful, Actually … It’s like there’s a mini shitty Charlie Brooker in Slack negging everything it can “see”. Second thing. Matt Webb has been Irritating Matt Webb and gone …
- Justice in Forensic Algorithms; The One With Retroactive Bereavement Fare Claims; Bits and Pieces … the blog Building Slackp [6] just launched about, uh, building Slack. Nemawashi , the “Japanese business informal process of quietly laying the foundation for some proposed change or project …
- Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough … This, combined with a discussion in a Slack about "what is it that the BBC national radio stations are good for now, anyway?" These are, arguably, editorial decisions …
- The Hallway Track … If I take a look at the application right now, I'm currently logged into eight Slacks, only one of which is for work. Every Slack I'm …
- The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things … the general/everyone channel in a Slack or Discord). The room here would be the kitchen. federated communication (e.g. uh "public" that's explicitly world readable and …
- Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices … Discords and Slacks won't go away either. Some Discords and Slacks might also be displaced by Mastodons. This is... kind of all good? More choice! Also, the …
- Weird VR or, Make VR Fun; Heated seats; You don't see the unsuccessful long tail … what if dealing with Jira tickets in VR were fun ? What's the equivalent of a silly Slack bot in the corner of the room? Why do you …
- Standards; The Bird in the Room … you see something funny in one Slack, invariably in a channel for sharing good tweets or eyerolling stuff or whatever, and it is not in another Slack yet …
- It's not a place, it's what's in-between; Twitter will be unbundled … This isn't "move from Twitter to Discord or Slack or Mastodon" because those are different things, definitely Discord and Slack are different things than "a giant undifferentiated …
- Policy is strategy, mumble videogames … In any sufficiently large organization with unclear goals and strategy, you might imagine someone doing a sort of Slack-based ahem (sorry, I guess a Teams-based ahem …
- The Ridiculously Complex, Subtle and Glorious Dynamic Context of Human Relationships … A household Slack can help you share information or find it better than email. Spreadsheets of what's important and to make comparisons can help you choose a …
- The Social Safety Net and... Financial Services? … see! I mean, in Docs' favour: it's now the lowest common denominator. Slack might want to claim the phrase, but I think it's as fair to …
- s11hiatus05/05: umbra … Instead, I slacked a copy of the Emotional Labor PDF Metafilter thread to Rebecca, the agency’s head of creative resourcing because at least part of me thought …
- Eight Short Pieces In Fifteen Minutes Or Less … A culture-change canary Lastly, Rick Klau pointed out that " it will never not be funny to me that Slack calls this 👊🏻 :facepunch:", to which my thought …
- A New Hope … the floor and the feed Will Slack noticed that Twitter will let you know you have a notification, and that the notification is “ turn on notifications ”. This is …
- *gestures at everything* … If you want me on Teams or Slack or whatever, wherever, then you pay for a device and the network access for that device. I’m not putting …
- That feeling of being there … You don’t, like in a Giant Slack, want everyone to know what you think, you just want to tell a few trusted people. Sometimes the text-only …
- *gestures at the world* … the weekend helping his first grade class get set up with Zoom and Slack), he was supposed to have built a boat for his main lesson (which otherwise …
- 1:9:90 … 1.0 Some things that caught my attention 1.1 1:9:90 I was having a conversation in Slack with some friends and it turned into an …
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and … I mean, Hiro doesn’t even really appear to get emails? There’s no Slack? There’s no DM to Y.T. (SORRY. I AM SORRY.) In the …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … All I have open is Safari, iTunes, Slack, Terminal (I have a habit of pinging example.org every 2 seconds whenever I’m on a dodgey connection so …
- Sherlock Holmes and the Slack Channel Names … thought-out-loud: “ Sherlock Holmes is given a list of your company’s Slack channel names and instantly diagnoses the top 10 issues, and which of the leadership …
- As at Batman, I want a Batcomputer so that I can remain unchallenged as The World’s Greatest Detective … 1.5 Genuine People Personalities Erika Hall tweeted the other day that (in my reading) it felt icky calling something as nicely designed as Slack “Enterprise Software” and …
- Write the future … The XOXO community and Slack is another piece of Metadata. Another way of thinking about this is that if (certain kinds of) content marketing people don't instantly …
- umbra … Instead, I slacked a copy of the Emotional Labor PDF Metafilter thread to Rebecca, the agency’s head of creative resourcing because at least part of me thought …
- SMALL MOVES, ELLIE … Also, serialisation. * You only have to wait a couple days between seeing another engineering interview horror story on Hacker News, so it's great to see Slack (who …
- If It's Just Us... Seems Like An Awful Waste Of Space, Right? … in a Slack channel where we're used to posting real estate listing porn, a gorgeous $1.5m unaffordable house that looks like a rendering[0] but... if …
- First Rule In Government Spending … What's interesting to me here is that Slack is a product built on Slack in the same way that Facebook is (and maintains) that it's a …
- OK TO GO … in yesterday's episode I referred to Stewart Brand as a co-founder of Slack. Stewart Brand is not a co-founder of Slack, he instead has been …
- They Should Have Sent A Poet … None of this thought of course is worth mentioning without tying back to Slack and, in headline-worthy style, pointing out the pedigree of (Stewart) Brand and (Anna …
- This Generation's Commodore 64 … Tinder has now made it easy for you to share Tinder profiles into Slack[6], which is totally one data point for Ellis accurately finding bits of present …
- ROUND HOUSE … some json and used tracery[2] and cheapbotsdonequick[3], some quick chatting over Slack produced the mutual agreement that we should use the handle @DEFCON_STATUS[4] with …
- Black Design … full of mostly young, mostly white people, surprisingly gender-equal, but everyone with their heads down, presumably swimming through streams of Slack channels. "Where's it all leading …
- GUT; Sixteen Theses … and instead just get on with *doing the things* and that things like Slack help with progress in that direction, but these still also seem more cultural than …
- Coffee; Brands; Stream, Stock and Flow; Paperless … In the future, organizations will "spin out" successful Slack channels instead of teams, groups or divisions. [3] I say this as someone who - through my current work with …
- Podcasts; Other Things; Hue … You know who else is starting to sponsor things and has lots of money to throw around[2]? Slack. You know what I'd quip on the internet …
- The Random Walk Strategy; The Wrong Way Round; Miscellanea … Club 2.0 The Wrong Way Round Via Jack Madans the other day in the Code for America Slack, news that the California SAWS Consortium IV[0] - a …
- Hello babies; Post-Apocalyptic Duolingo; Recreational Capitalism … when most of the people I need to talk to are either using Slack or Twitter? For which: CONVERSATIONAL SPANISH FOR TWITTER should totally be a thing. 3 …
- What Twitter Should Do; CXO vs CUO; Shilling … You probably want to listen to them talk about the UK’s Government Digital Service, how Buzzfeed, NPR and Lynda do design and some new startup called Slack …
- Celestial Emporium; Algorithmic Copyright; Up And To The Right; More Empathy; Terms … voice that Heather Champ[0], Jessamyn West[1] and co had on Twitter. * Slack's tone of voice is human and jokey but never patronising or condescending to …
- Any Old Iron … A system, as well, because these things that are Procured are often Delivered, which is why I got all excited when I was in a work Slack channel …
- Use Google Docs, They Said; Digital Media; Force Touch; Product + Practice … you know, Like Slack, that actually does the job that people need it to do now. (And yes, I am looking at Poetica[4]). Related: there are no …
- "Everybody"; The Webb Scale; Algorithms … 1.0 "Everybody" Via a non-work-related Slack team (how many of you are doing that? Have a shoot-the-shit, non-work-related Slack team? I …
- Ecks Oh, Ecks Oh; Just In Time … But I want to go back to the thing about Slack and IRC - that Slack was essentially the best bits about IRC and then all the techiness, all …
- The Mezzanine; Doing The Job; Minimum Viable Whimsy … Three issues that should preoccupy managers in the next 50 years - The Economist 3.0 Minimum Viable Whimsy 157 - I haven't even *used* Slack[1], so this …
- Email; Snow Crashing (10); 2014 (4) … This section is probably as close as you're going to get to a reckon about Slack[4], mainly because I haven't had occasion to use Slack …
- The Exoskeleton of the Internet; The Web Created the Modern Camera; Data Has Replaced God … This line was pointed out by Nick Sweeney, and it has nothing to do with Slack at all, which is worth a whole 'nother newsletter episode (at the …
- Mundane Blue Ant; Press Square To Hack … these days, Blue Ant looks like collaboration with Slack (of, if you're being obnoxious, a "bespoke collaboration app built by a world-famous iOS developer recruited away …
- The iPad; The Difficulty; Tools; Silly … Or, rather, that increasingly the way we work involves workflow, so the "tools" you get are things like Slack (part of the Butterfield/Henderson Act 2 of "thing …