The 3 Levels of Wealth

The Psychology of a Billion-Dollar Enterprise App: Why Is Slack So Habit-Forming?

Slack isn’t just another office collaboration app. The company has been called, “the fastest-growing workplace software ever.” Recent press…

What happened when this tech company stopped using Slack on Fridays - Fast Company

The social media platform wanted to see if they can be more focused and productive when there aren't endless Slack notifications.

How Slack and Discord became tools for worker revolt

Lots of tech worker movements got their start on Slack and Discord, even if the creators of those apps would rather not talk about it.

What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools

To identify the value that social tools can bring to companies, the authors split employees at a large financial services firm into two groups, only one of which used an internal social platform, and observed them for six months. Those who had used the tool became 31% more likely to find coworkers with relevant expertise and 88% more likely to discover who had useful connections. Internal social tools can help employees make faster decisions, develop more innovative ideas for products and services, and become more engaged in their work and their companies. But companies that try to “go social” often fall into four traps: They (1) assume that Millennials will embrace social tools at work; (2) struggle to foster personal interaction that builds trust and promotes knowledge sharing; (3) fail to recognize how learning occurs on social tools; and (4) focus on the wrong data. The authors offer advice on how to avoid these traps.

Slack is the opposite of organizational memory

The internet is not a dumptruck and neither am I

How Twitter Found Its Money Mojo

The not-so-dismal science of Twitternomics

From 0 to $1B - Slack's Founder Shares Their Epic Launch Strategy

“HELL YEAH WE'RE USING @SlackHQ AT WORK I. LOVE. SLACK.”

Slack is work chat's runaway train, raises $200M at $3.8B | TechCrunch

The Slack rocketship won't slow down. The business messaging startup has raised $200 million at a $3.8 billion post-money valuation, the company confirms

Free Our Feeds

Social media is broken: controlled by a handful of billionaires who shape what people see, say, and believe. These platforms profit from division, exploit user data, and lock people into closed systems.

GREG ISENBERG on Twitter / X

I think the most interesting thing about Jack Dorsey's "Slack killer" is the idea around shared compute.I haven't seen people talk about it so here are my thoughts FWIW:Open models got good, close enough to the paid frontier stuff to run for real. But the strongest ones need… https://t.co/b5PBgYjAGL— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) July 25, 2026

Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications | Dave Cheney

Full disclosure: my employer makes a Slack alternative. All my concerns about the use of Slack type chat services apply equally to its competitors, including my employer’s.

Money as Message | Andreessen Horowitz

Network effects — where a product or service becomes more valuable to its users as more people use it — are one of the key ways software businesses maintain a better product and more defensible market position. This is especially true of messaging apps like WeChat — which, as I’ve argued before, is not just...