Slack Considered Harmful

Lighting talk from Melbourne CocoaHeads 111, on focus, productivity, and the danger of living in a distracted world.

https://www.melbournecocoaheads.com/updates/speakers-for-cocoaheads-no-111

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftOwD2SIJ6E&list=UUpTDVzUkk9ieAyVyUi28bWw&index=4&t=18s

Transcript

1. Considered Harmful
2. Productivity = Amount of Generated Business Value
3. Time on Slack Productivity * Based on no data whatsoever
4. SlaRuProWo
5. Slack Routine Productive for Work
6. /away /status " working deeply on … Snooze notifications for 1 hour SlaRuProWo QUIT SLACK!
7. Things that happened Lots of work done Felt good about the rest of the day Had fun
8. Things that didn’t happen Nobody died Nothing caught fire I didn’t get fired Only one person overrode the snooze
9. Try the SlaRuProWo #
10. $
11. Neuroplasticity Homeostasis
12. Value of Focus Strategies for focused work
13. Cognitive control in media multitaskers Ophir, Nass, and Wagner Sept 2009 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences http://www.pnas.org/content/106/37/15583.full
14. “The people we talk with continually said, look, when I really have to concentrate, I turn off everything and I am laser- focused. And unfortunately, they've developed habits of mind that make it impossible for them to be laser-focused. They're suckers for irrelevancy. They just can't keep on task.” -C. Nass https://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182861382/ the-myth-of-multitasking
15. Neuroplasticity & Homeostasis Effects of Multitasking %
16. Stop Multi Tasking
17. @mokagio http://mokacoding.com gio@mokacoding.com
18. http://mokacoding.com/#subscribe