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No, Slack-mania can't be cured with systemized discipline.

Slack is a pox. It's not just about endless notifications that kill your ability to focus, it's an environment that actively encourages organizational anti-patterns. If you have a question, first you ask your manager. If Slack makes it easy to reach out to someone directly, your manager will tell you to Slack them. If you don't have Slack, and you don't have people's phone numbers, instead you get directed to documentation / wiki / support ticketing.

Organizational choice architecture matters. Slack makes bad choices easy and good choices difficult. That's enough reason to ditch it.



All comms through manager sounds like a dystopian nightmare worse than slack if you ask me...


I don't mean all communication, I just mean in the case that you aren't aware of what to do because you're new.


That’s way saner :)


> No, Slack-mania can't be cured with systemized discipline.

This matches with my (n=1) experience. The only way to cure "yourself" is to get away from organizations that use Slack in the way that OP describes.




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