Slack's appeal is rooted in the ability to dip into a company's archived, project-based messaging stream as opposed to feeling obliged to respond to every Inbox missive. "My guess is people who use Slack are reverting to the same level of busy-ness, but they're accomplishing more." "Our website says, 'Be less busy,' and while it's a good pitch I'm not sure if we deliver on that yet," says Butterfield, who is at once candid, intelligently longwinded and wry. Now, as CEO of fast-growing work-messaging platform Slack, Butterfield, 42, wants to free us from the choking tyranny of email so we can have a little more peace and quiet to think. In fact, Stewart Butterfield's British Columbia upbringing at the hands of hippie parents was so isolated that as a toddler he thought the word for "child" was Noah, the name of his one friend who lived a mile away. The man behind one of the biggest revolutions in communications grew up in a remote log cabin with no running water or electricity.
SAN FRANCISCO – Here's something incongruous.
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