{"id":1578,"date":"2016-02-29T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2016-02-29T15:30:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T15:30:25","slug":"slack-im-breaking-up-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2016\/02\/slack-im-breaking-up-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Slack, I\u2019m Breaking Up with You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/better-people\/slack-i-m-breaking-up-with-you-54600ace03ea#.3mbpurnfp\">Slack, I\u2019m Breaking Up with You<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think you and I can both agree that meetings are kind of the worst. And, on the surface, you do totally obviate the need for a ton of them. I can definitely think of many times in which a quick Slack whip-around has saved me from all kinds of interpersonal tedium. So thank you for that.<\/p>\n<p id=\"40b8\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">However, I\u2019m wondering what the cost of it is. Specifically, I wonder if conducting business in an asynchronish environment simply turns every minute into an opportunity for conversation, essentially \u201cmeeting-izing\u201d the entire workday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">tl;dr:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What would you call an all-day meeting with unknown participants and no agenda?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jason Fried (@jasonfried) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonfried\/status\/700314634939543552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slack, I\u2019m Breaking Up with You: I think you and I can both agree that meetings are kind of the worst. And, on the surface, you do totally obviate the need for a ton of them. I can definitely think of many times in which a quick Slack whip-around has saved me from all kinds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[177,176],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-links","tag-productivity","tag-slack","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-ps","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}