📡Communication tools - Noise to Signal

Communications is key aspect of modern productivity, from mail delivery pigeons to WhatsApp there has been a stream of new tools all. They have impacted productivity profoundly. We use emails widely before we started getting inundated with marketing material, needless forwards, overtime Noise to signal ratio goes up and we still keep looking for useful information but they become tool of collaborative time sink.

post-email world moved to messaging tools like slack, matrix, teams etc. however these tools are not immune to increasing noise to signal ratio.

There should be high enough bar to interrupt someone and when it happens it better be good.