Referring to the ubiquitous Internal Presentation full of company metrics and bullet points circulated around countless departments by email each day, he muses: “That powerpoint file could be replaced by a web app for making slides that lets two people work on it at once. As Benedict Evans writes succinctly, new tools start out being made to fit existing workflows, but over time the workflows evolve to take full advantage of the tools. But as Slack rises rapidly through the tech scene and beyond into the outside world, they and others like them are changing the very requirements of our work itself.
You might think that a communication and workflow tool such as Slack would be a great compliment to a storage and version control service like Dropbox – and you’d be right.