Slack IPO today. I'm in. Cramer said to buy under $40. It is listed at 26 but will probably be 40 by the time we can buy. I'm gonna play this one.
Slack is ruining my life and I love it
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/seth-fiegerman
New York (CNN Business)In the time it took me to type this sentence about
Slack, I received more than a dozen messages in a private Slack group and more posts than I can count in several team channels. I typed many words in response to those messages — some of them even borderline good words — but came no closer to completing my job for the day: writing this article about Slack.
If you don't know what Slack is, chances are you don't work in media or tech. Congratulations, you have probably made better life choices than I have. Most of the time, Slack is described blandly as
a workplace communication tool. But that barely scratches the surface of its
impacton teams, internet culture and, most importantly of all, my own damn life.
Slack is many things: an engine for collaboration and a distraction machine; a community-builder for an office and a facsimile of high school cliques; a service to streamline work and to blur the lines of your work/life balance. It is the bane of my existence and also, at times, the only salve for a stressful day.
Marie Kondo tries to get my digital life in order
Think of AOL Instant Messenger, but for people with jobs. Better yet, think of coworking space provider WeWork, with its promise of delivering office culture as a service. Slack does that too, but online rather than in a physical space. At a time when more people are working jobs behind screens, sometimes remotely in distributed workplaces, Slack is the new office watercooler. It is the work environment you have when you're stuck at your desk for hours and can't hover by the glorious office plant wall or the craft beer taps in the kitchen. (For the record: Our office has neither.)
Slack is where you welcome new employees with a procession of GIFs. It's where companies divide themselves between channels devoted to cats and channels devoted to dogs. It's where you find endless combinations of group chats to gossip and backchannel your own team, and then backchannel your backchannels. It's where a company can bond with a
party parrot emoji for
every occasion: a coffee parrot and a beer parrot, a sad parrot and a fiesta parrot, a chill parrot and an exploding parrot.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/tech/slack-confessions/index.html
I cant decide if guns are undervalued or a dying industry.
