“Slack, you’re asking for A LOT of my time
I may have been fooling myself when we were still in the honeymoon phase, but when there was all the talk of you killing email, I have to admit I thought it was the email problem you were attacking, not just the email platform.
Which is to say, I thought you were providing some relief from the torrential influx of messages, alerts, and notifications I was receiving on a daily basis. “Me + Slack = Fewer distractions and more productivity,” I thought at the time. I have to say, though, that I’ve since found it to be the opposite.”
Slack is very aware of these concerns. And working hard to mitigate it. A good example is how they rolled out ‘snooze notifications’. The global noise must have been high (they’ve got the data) and they set punitive defaults.
Meanwhile if you read up on Basecamp 3 release, you would see a big feature is ‘work can wait’. It’s all feeds from the same concept of not allowing the app to control you.
It might appear the article is OTT but if you consider that bots are the new apps, then safe to assume the problem will only get worse.
