Get a taste of productivity back
Do you feel like nothing gets done at work?
Join us and stop slacking for a day!
Intimidating
“Welcome! Here are 2,123 channels to learn what we are working on.”
Distracting
“Feel free to mute all notifications” (a week later) “You didn‘t know?!”
Chaotic
“I searched for that topic. Which of these 35k results is still relevant today?”
Tyrannical
“How long will it take @you to fix this bug?” (your boss, in a public chat)
Exclusive
“Please don’t invite anyone to this group message/private channel. It’s just for us.”
Deceptive
(after deleting or editing a compromising message) “What? I never said that!”
August 26th is #noslackday
Slack is so engrained in your workplace. You cannot email your coworkers anymore: they won’t read them. You cannot share long-form documents about product vision: all discussions happen in threads. You cannot expect a curated review for your Pull Request: just drop a link in a public channel and hope someone will notice.
Maybe there is a better way. Stop slacking for a single day. Just turn it off.
Rediscover the pleasure of spending two hours writing down your ideas without immediate replies. Get back into the zone by coding for an entire morning without a stream of pending notifications. Rejoice in the tranquillity of designing prototypes that will be reviewed where they live, not in a chat.