David Pierce

But like when you need to share files, do it in Slack. I think that is much closer to what Slack wanted to be than what it has become. And what it became is this awful system engagement bait app that we all spend way too much time in and never actually get any work done inside of.

But like when you need to share files, do it in Slack. I think that is much closer to what Slack wanted to be than what it has become. And what it became is this awful system engagement bait app that we all spend way too much time in and never actually get any work done inside of.

But like when you need to share files, do it in Slack. I think that is much closer to what Slack wanted to be than what it has become. And what it became is this awful system engagement bait app that we all spend way too much time in and never actually get any work done inside of.

It's millennials and it's text boxes. There's this long sort of mythological story about Kinja, which was the old CMS that they used to run at Gawker.

It's millennials and it's text boxes. There's this long sort of mythological story about Kinja, which was the old CMS that they used to run at Gawker.

It's millennials and it's text boxes. There's this long sort of mythological story about Kinja, which was the old CMS that they used to run at Gawker.

And I have no idea if this is true, but it is a story I heard that I spiritually completely believe, which is that they ran an experiment at Gawker where if they changed the size of the default text box in Kinja, it would change how long people wrote. If you give people a lot of space, make the text box big, They're gonna write a lot in it. You fill the thing.

And I have no idea if this is true, but it is a story I heard that I spiritually completely believe, which is that they ran an experiment at Gawker where if they changed the size of the default text box in Kinja, it would change how long people wrote. If you give people a lot of space, make the text box big, They're gonna write a lot in it. You fill the thing.

And I have no idea if this is true, but it is a story I heard that I spiritually completely believe, which is that they ran an experiment at Gawker where if they changed the size of the default text box in Kinja, it would change how long people wrote. If you give people a lot of space, make the text box big, They're gonna write a lot in it. You fill the thing.

If you make it one line, people are gonna write one line and hit enter, right? Slack made it one line. It looks like a thing where you would send text messages. It doesn't look like an email inbox. You don't have subjects. You don't have two lines. You don't have a thing for a signature. Like, can you imagine if you had a signature at the bottom of every Slack message? You'd look like a lunatic.

If you make it one line, people are gonna write one line and hit enter, right? Slack made it one line. It looks like a thing where you would send text messages. It doesn't look like an email inbox. You don't have subjects. You don't have two lines. You don't have a thing for a signature. Like, can you imagine if you had a signature at the bottom of every Slack message? You'd look like a lunatic.

If you make it one line, people are gonna write one line and hit enter, right? Slack made it one line. It looks like a thing where you would send text messages. It doesn't look like an email inbox. You don't have subjects. You don't have two lines. You don't have a thing for a signature. Like, can you imagine if you had a signature at the bottom of every Slack message? You'd look like a lunatic.

And so all of these like product incentives taught you to do it really fast. The main thing there was a single line of text and everybody else uses a single line of text in messaging apps. And so we all just treated this thing like messaging apps.

And so all of these like product incentives taught you to do it really fast. The main thing there was a single line of text and everybody else uses a single line of text in messaging apps. And so we all just treated this thing like messaging apps.

And so all of these like product incentives taught you to do it really fast. The main thing there was a single line of text and everybody else uses a single line of text in messaging apps. And so we all just treated this thing like messaging apps.

And it was a bunch of millennials who came into the workforce and are used to the type of thought, press enter, type another thought, press enter, type another thought, press enter. If you get the text that is two paragraphs from somebody, either somebody died or you're being broken up with.

And it was a bunch of millennials who came into the workforce and are used to the type of thought, press enter, type another thought, press enter, type another thought, press enter. If you get the text that is two paragraphs from somebody, either somebody died or you're being broken up with.

And it was a bunch of millennials who came into the workforce and are used to the type of thought, press enter, type another thought, press enter, type another thought, press enter. If you get the text that is two paragraphs from somebody, either somebody died or you're being broken up with.

And instead, we just trained everyone to talk in work like they talk to their friends in text. And culturally, I think that is really interesting and complicated, but it immediately broke that paradigm that you're talking about, which is Slack even has always said that Slack uses Slack in a much more considered way. People write much longer things.

And instead, we just trained everyone to talk in work like they talk to their friends in text. And culturally, I think that is really interesting and complicated, but it immediately broke that paradigm that you're talking about, which is Slack even has always said that Slack uses Slack in a much more considered way. People write much longer things.