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Slack and the Imaginary Economy.
The problem with ‘productivity’ is that it is concerned with managing and increasing output: producing widgets, quarterly reports, the next release of the software, yet another research report, and meanwhile, always aspiring to do more with less. Less waste, less idle time on the assembly line, and fewer workers. The end game is to speed up the mac... See more
Stowe Boyd • The Problem of Productivity
And at the same time, I think that the group of people who, by luck or by temperament, proved very, very good at using the internet, to some degree, distracts from the many, many, many people for whom the internet is fundamentally a distraction machine, or for whom the internet is creating, because of what we built on it. You know, shorter attentio... See more
Ezra Klein • Opinion | We Know Shockingly Little About What Makes Humanity Prosper
It’s not that Slack is too distracting and killing individual productivity. It’s that your company’s processes are so dysfunctional you need Slack to be distracting and killing individual productivity.
Kevin Kwok • The Arc of Collaboration - kwokchain
This reality creates a nasty, productivity-sapping circularity. When you’re overloaded, you’re forced to fall back on the flexibility of the hive mind. This workflow, however, leads to even more fragmentation of your attention, making you even less efficient in getting things done.