alt Hacker NewsThis is one of those posts where I cannot work out if this is earnest or satire. I kept waiting for a punchline but I don't know if it ever came. Makes me suspect the whole thing was the punchline.
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antonvs • yesterday at 10:42 AM
It seems serious. I can only imagine it’s referring to a pretty small company. I suppose it can be tempting to do everything with one tool.
I’ve seen some slack maximalism before, like using Slack as a primary operations platform - sending alerts and so forth to it, and nowhere else. But then that company hired a real engineering manager.
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I took it seriously and wrote up the reply that came from my gut: https://substack.com/@zackmaril/note/c-185137941
Why does one really need a slack channel to ask people if they want to go for a walk? Why not walk around and ask people if they want to take a walk?