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> what affordance could be surfaced to suggest this communication medium is asynchronous and discourage this imposing behavior?

I was employed through the transformation of pre->post changes, It took about 6 months of consistent reminders on all communication mediums, it even become memeish at one point.

>I'm suggesting that there are major problems in the hinterland that have simply been ignored.

I strongly agree with this, the lack of 'deep work' that instant communication mediums have created has destroyed so much innovation, possibility and profit through its creation.

Ginsberg was a genius, but things have changed.

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the waking hours looking for slack notifications, burning for the modern digital connection to the dopamine laced cloud.”




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