Some time ago, after going through about five years of terminal connectivity to my job via Slack, I got a new phone and just... didn't reinstall Slack.
You are probably expecting me to start listing off all the benefits, how my life is 127% better, I sleep 42 extra minutes each night and so on.
I wish it were that simple.
The good is that, in the three years I've not had Slack installed on my phone, I've missed important night/weekend events exactly twice - and in both cases, they were improper escalations directly to me (we have a pager rotation for this exact scenario).
The bad news is that I still find myself anxious that I'm missing something - because frankly, I probably am, even if it's low-priority. It's kind of like taking out a loan against tomorrow, where I'll have to catch up on a series of decisions that were made without my involvement, or talk someone through what they _should_ have done when I could've simply led them down the right path.
You are probably expecting me to start listing off all the benefits, how my life is 127% better, I sleep 42 extra minutes each night and so on.
I wish it were that simple.
The good is that, in the three years I've not had Slack installed on my phone, I've missed important night/weekend events exactly twice - and in both cases, they were improper escalations directly to me (we have a pager rotation for this exact scenario).
The bad news is that I still find myself anxious that I'm missing something - because frankly, I probably am, even if it's low-priority. It's kind of like taking out a loan against tomorrow, where I'll have to catch up on a series of decisions that were made without my involvement, or talk someone through what they _should_ have done when I could've simply led them down the right path.