I have to wonder if we can’t learn something from newer social media platforms and apply it to productivity ecosystems. The fact it’s almost tough to not share any activity may be important. There’s so much effort we have to expend to construct thoughts professionally but in office situations besides personal connections that are only possible offline (sports and other non-digital recreation) we tend to have a lot of half-baked ideas and easily overhear conversations from others against our normal flow of thought (why open floor plans are oftentimes highly criticized). When we’re heads down coding we’ll miss all this even if people are physically colocated.
Among higher level folks that don’t code or design or other technical work perhaps it’s more important for the ad hoc communication styles.
Maybe it’s even just rate of communication though? I type easily over 100 wpm and my typing is probably faster than I can talk. But when typing it’s synchronous versus conversations are streamed protocols with chances for interruption and such to reclarify meaning that is much slower when you have to buffer everything first in one payload and wait for ack. Maybe someone that’s studied communication can actually give some concrete data on my hunch?
Among higher level folks that don’t code or design or other technical work perhaps it’s more important for the ad hoc communication styles.
Maybe it’s even just rate of communication though? I type easily over 100 wpm and my typing is probably faster than I can talk. But when typing it’s synchronous versus conversations are streamed protocols with chances for interruption and such to reclarify meaning that is much slower when you have to buffer everything first in one payload and wait for ack. Maybe someone that’s studied communication can actually give some concrete data on my hunch?