Ben Balter
@benbalter

As many teams are suddenly moving to Slack, it may not be obvious, but async should be the default. Use @channel (everyone), @here (online), and @mentions only when sync is necessary as they could send push notifications and force context switching for tens or hundreds of humans

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2020-03-26

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