Recent developments in “trends I find disturbing”… Farhad Manjoo interviewed Stewart Butterfield, one of the co-founders of Slack, an intra-office messaging service that’s being touted as the replacement for email. I don’t really care about email being supplanted in the workplace. What bums me out is this description of Butterfield’s worldview:
“He is betting that solo work is on the wane and that as all of our jobs become more complex, more and more creative and technical feats will be accomplished by teams rather than lone practitioners.”
Ughhhh. This is just like high school, being forced to participate in endless group projects. I am a perfectionist—thus a control freak—when I care about something. Working with other people is the worst. We almost always have differing standards. I want to be a lone wolf! My concern is probably really immature, but I can’t help it. Collaborating is so fraught.
