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What is the policy for ad hoc huddles? If I’m spending more than 20% of my attention on a message thread, then I’m not being a productive programmer. At that point I just want to pick up the phone and talk to people (but not hang around and chat forever).



That's just a personality thing isn't it? I'd generally rather thrash it out over text, have the written record to refer to and point others at.

I'm not doing anything else either way, so a call doesn't help that.


It is. And my question is that - given that it is a personality thing - how is Shopify dealing with it?




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