Slack Wants to Replace Email. Is That What We Want?

Absolutely fucking not. Slack is like a phone call — people loading you with tasks you have to deal with immediately. My job is a cognitive one. I don’t need to be getting pings about every little thing constantly. That way leads to destroyed productivity and tons of wasted time.

Slack is a scam that causes people to get addicted to the immediate feedback. The company of course does not care about productivity at all — they care about people using Slack.

Avoid at all costs.