Team Messaging Tools Create Constant Interruption Instead of Supporting Asynchronous Work
Product teams that claim to work asynchronously still rely on always-on chat tools like Slack, where notifications keep arriving and conversations lack structure, priority, or resolution state. This mismatch between stated async values and interruption-heavy tooling creates friction for deep, focused product and engineering work.
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