[tkiolp4]

As an individual contributor:

- Among the Slack channels I’ve joined (maybe 30% of the total amount?) I mute most of them, except the ones on which I actively participate.

- I don’t even try to understand/make a mental model of the thousands of pages of “documentation” we have in Confluence

- I usually mark most emails as read (mainly because my company communicates through Slack). I receive ton of automated emails

The trick is to know how to search for stuff. I extensively use Slack to search for past info (e.g., If I encounter an error while working on project X, I first check on Slack to see if someone has dealt with it before). I use Confluence search as well and GitLab search for snippets of code. Most of my colleagues don’t know how to search for stuff and get overwhelmed by the massive amount of docs/messages/notifications/repos we have.