BADGE OF HORROR

Your Work Apps Aren't Working

Welcome To The Working Week War & Peaceniks! Let me start this email by apologizing for filling your inbox.

After two years of remote working, we are tired of Zoom. We miss actual interpersonal interaction. We need to start meeting in person again. Yes, and… we all need to start using video and phone calls more. Why?

Emails, texts, Slacks, Teams, Mondays, Basecamp, et al are destroying our relationships, ruining our mental health, and – get this – making us worse at our jobs.

Productivity technology is designed to make us, well, more productive. And in all the examples above – emails and messaging/collaboration apps – do that. Until they don’t. Here’s a diagram from Darius Foroux demonstrating how this works (or doesn’t).