George B. Thomas compares Slack and ClickUp, arguing that instant messaging feeds a culture of impatience. Quick answers get sought without thinking through the question's purpose, how the answer will be used, or who else needs to know.
There are wonderful benefits to having something like Slack utilized within a company or teams. However, there is a purpose for those instant communication tools, and there's a purpose for project management platforms. And the instantaneous culture that we've all been burning into our brains has become pervasive inside of the professional environment as well. We have zero patience, so something like Slack feels very convenient and accessible for a lot of people. And so it is the quickest way to solve or get a question answered. But we're not taking the time to consider what is the point of that question? What are we going to do with that answer? Who else needs to know this answer? And so it's a combination of wanting everything as quick as humanly possible, and lacking the discipline to know when that's not necessary.
