Omg thank you for articulating this. I keep trying software like that and I keep hating it and then I avoid whole projects because the information for them is in those tools. I'm about to try to export all my click up notes and get out of there. I'm just not using it.
Thanks for helping me rethink software and project management software. Douglas Rushkoff in Program or be Programmed first got me thinking about the ways in which coding itself - set up in binaries - influences if not constrains the ways we think. You are applying some of his logic to seeing workplace software. I like your client assignment, too.
So much of this resonates with me and I'm so glad you articulated it. And I've seen so many people spend so much time comparing this software tool to that software tool and neither might meet the actual needs.
Ahhh as a software person who loves to geek out on new tools: 100% agreed! I love the exercise you gave your clients to help them "hire" the right tool for the job.
But even more, you have a profound way of looking at how software influences us. Thank you for making it make sense.
P.S. I used to *love* Asana, ClickUp, you name it... It seemed to help when working with a team, but I realized that I really don't love breaking my work up that way personally.
Omg thank you for articulating this. I keep trying software like that and I keep hating it and then I avoid whole projects because the information for them is in those tools. I'm about to try to export all my click up notes and get out of there. I'm just not using it.
Thanks for helping me rethink software and project management software. Douglas Rushkoff in Program or be Programmed first got me thinking about the ways in which coding itself - set up in binaries - influences if not constrains the ways we think. You are applying some of his logic to seeing workplace software. I like your client assignment, too.
So much of this resonates with me and I'm so glad you articulated it. And I've seen so many people spend so much time comparing this software tool to that software tool and neither might meet the actual needs.
Ahhh as a software person who loves to geek out on new tools: 100% agreed! I love the exercise you gave your clients to help them "hire" the right tool for the job.
But even more, you have a profound way of looking at how software influences us. Thank you for making it make sense.
P.S. I used to *love* Asana, ClickUp, you name it... It seemed to help when working with a team, but I realized that I really don't love breaking my work up that way personally.