Slack

“And I also make a habit of closing Slack while I'm doing focused work because 99% of the time a Slack message does not need to be answered in one or two hours. It's never usually that urgent.”

“99% of the time a Slack message does not need to be answered right now or even in the next few hours.”

“The best analogy for thinking about this Intuit acquisition is them buying MailChimp Is to SMBs what Salesforce buying Slack and other companies is for enterprise. Basically, Salesforce has been trying to buy the full stack for enterprises to be able to grow a…”

“Well, actually, we created a moment called Coffee Chats which is, oh, actually, it's Donut. It's a Slack channel that allows new hires to be included in the Slack where they're just randomly grouped up with, like, five other people outside of their department.…”

“I don't think it's good actually for me to be in these channels. Like, I think it's important that I'm not, actually, because when I'm in them, then it feels like, oh, Jesse's alongside. He knows what's going on, and even we had our first version of those meet…”

“Apparently Teams is like five times the size of Slack now. Because Microsoft owns the enterprise”

“Slack is a, it's a synchronous tool that masquerades as an async tool. And so, you end up getting into these multi-hour conversations with your thumbs, where you're, like, waiting for five minutes for them to get back to you, and you're just staring at your ph…”

“For a single day, keep track of how often people will ask you for follow-up questions or clarifying questions When you're talking with them over Slack, in person, or on calls. And save that number at the end of the day. That's gonna be your baseline. Then, for…”