October 2025
- Oct 21, 2025Work SkillsComparing Collaboration Tools: Meeting Team NeedsStewart Butterfield's company was building a video game called Glitch. The game failed, but the internal tool built to coordinate the distributed team became Slack, acquired by Salesforce for $27.7 billion. The lesson is that collaboration tools work when they solve the communication problem a team actually has. Five functions need different answers, and the Slack versus Teams choice is rarely functional: it usually follows whether the organization already runs Office 365.
- Oct 18, 2025Work SkillsWriting Tools for Professionals: Clarity Through TechnologyWriting is five different activities, and most tool frustration comes from running the wrong one at the wrong moment. Flower and Hayes found in 1981 that novice writers get stuck in sentence-level revision loops while experts move fluidly between planning, drafting and revising, which is the case for switching grammar checking off until a draft exists. A 2023 Science study by Noy and Zhang of 453 professionals found ChatGPT users finished tasks about 40 percent faster.
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