On Written Communication
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I've been noodling on this topic for a while, and I realized as I was walking home earlier today that it clicked for me.
One of the things that I've been finding myself really missing as of late at work is a platform for communication that encourages longer form written content. Slack, our defacto default communication tool, has simultaneously been one of the best things and the worst things for team communication and collaboration. It's difficult for me to accurately describe my mixed emotions about it in writing[1]Jump to footnote.
I think I've partially started to really feel this since I've been diving deep into tools for thought like Obsidian and Roam, which have really encouraged me to think by writing. I've found it incredibly freeing to brain dump my thoughts on a topic, and it has helped me make connections that I might have otherwise lost to random thoughts before getting distracted by something else.
However, I don't really have an equivalent for communication, or more
specifically I feel like I'm missing the Obsidian vault that I could use to
collaborate with think with teammates[2]Jump to footnote. While
internally at work we do have tools like Google Docs, Confluence, etc, none of
these tools seemed to have really stuck, and they either lean too heavily into
one side of the spectrum between collaboration or permanence.