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by xboxnolifes 1375 days ago
> For starters, he's talking about communications within a team, not the whole company. Should all work conversation happen in a single #general channel on slack (or whatever the equivalent is wherever)? Absolutely not.

If we can agree that not all conversations in a company happen inside of one big channel, we've already agreed to subdivide the company's conversations into smaller subgroups (teams). Why then do we dismiss the idea of subdividing a team's conversation into smaller subgroups? Why is a team the smallest unit?

Is there not also times where you share information to your entire team, but then realize you need to add in other people from not in your team? How is this different from the example where half the team had a discussion? Why is the entire concept of subdividing conversation lower discarded in an attempt to fix an issue that doesn't even end up fixed?