[jitl]

What they mean by spontaneous is things happing by chance. You pinging someone isn’t happening by chance, you’re choosing to do that - to make contact.

Compare to a physical office, where by chance you’re in the cafe at the same time as someone else who you usually don’t think about. But somehow you start talking and a good idea comes from it.

I’m remote and have no problem pinging anyone on slack from my teammate to the CEO — but when I visit the office I always find connections & ideas I would never find sitting at home.

[ghthor]

You can also just start talking in chat, even in group channels; doesn’t have to be DMs. And the you’ll have a log of your good ideas. And likely someone random will jump into your discussion.

[jitl]

There's a difference between the random chance dynamic I'm talking about, and sending a message to a slack channel.