Topic
Slack
- Slack and the Intercompany Communication Layer
Ben Thompson published this piece a few weeks back on the state of Slack up against its competitive market for chat and collaboration, namely Microsoft's Teams product. It covers the history well, dating back to Micro…
- Weekend Reading: The Worst Year to Be Alive, Chinese Sci-Fi, and Slack Networks
🌋 Why 536 Was the Worst Year To Be Alive You may have thought the entire 14th century was pretty bad, or maybe 1918 with its flu pandemic and millions of war casualties, but how about the 6th: A mysterious fog plunge…
- The Arc of Collaboration
In this essay, Kevin Kwok attempts to differentiate between productivity and collaboration, with a focus on how Slack has failed as yet to become the nervous system that combines these things. This take is one of the…
- The Missing Communication Link
Slack grew huge on the idea that it would “replace email” and become the digital hub for your whole company. In some organizations (like ours), it certainly has, or has at least subsumed most all internal-only communi…