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by jasonpeacock·9y ago·view on hn ↗
"I don't want to get blocked from doing my work because you've gone dark on slack."

That's poor project/task management if your whole day grinds to a halt because of a single blocker. There should always be more/other work to be done while waiting on a blocking issue to be resolved.

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Many people are in situations where task stand up and tear down are the most expensive things in their universe. If something comes up after you have spent 20 to an hour standing everything up but you need someone to do one thing, context switching will be brutal. If you are in the same physical location at worst case you can go find them, or you can ask around to know when they are next available. If they are 100 miles away on slack and not responding or otherwise not being able to get a hold of them, you are blocked and now have to swap to something else.