We're all likely to have some sort of a communication stream in our professional lives that needs regular attention from us for the foreseeable future. Right now, it's email.
I feel like most people who "dislike email" dislike it as a proxy for their unhappiness with their working environment and how the people around them communicate.
Email could probably do a better job of compensating for the poor communication habits of those we work with. In my experience, Slack exacerbates those bad habits. But with email, I don't think the medium is necessarily the problem. It's an asynchronous stream of stuff that needs our attention or that we want to have our attention. The protocol is reliable and nearly universal.
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We're all likely to have some sort of a communication stream in our professional lives that needs regular attention from us for the foreseeable future. Right now, it's email.
I feel like most people who "dislike email" dislike it as a proxy for their unhappiness with their working environment and how the people around them communicate.
Email could probably do a better job of compensating for the poor communication habits of those we work with. In my experience, Slack exacerbates those bad habits. But with email, I don't think the medium is necessarily the problem. It's an asynchronous stream of stuff that needs our attention or that we want to have our attention. The protocol is reliable and nearly universal.