Have you ever had experience when one of the members on the slack channel is hyper active, sharing project/technology related thoughts but non-important information for the rest of the team? How to not discourge him or to not have a opposite effect. I’m talking of someone posting messages every 10 minutes with something: “Hey I’ve found in React you can do .... it’s very cool feature.” So you end up browsing around 200 messages in the past day just to catch up with some conversation between different team members.
Yeah a new channel or thread dedicated for this purpose with clear guidelines is the right way to go.
Way to kill the enthusiasm of a an engaged worker just because people are not good at time management and at managing distractions, keeping up-to-date with communications, and filtering the noise. His hyperactivity is not the problem, the problem is you cannot deal with it. It’s not that he is too fast and too much. It’s that you’re too slow. Find him an interesting project or two, find ways to keep him engaged, channel that energy that is pure gold for your and his own good. Else watch him leave Toyota for Tesla soon. Don’t stifle him.
This is different opinion on this subject and I like this. That's why I've said "to not discourage him". I'm just passive member of the channel and personally I'm not involved into day to day chats, but the 17 other channel members expressed their concerns to me on this subject.
Dude he is clearly passionate about what he does and wants to learn. The other 17 members sound like bad engineers. I'd pip them all.
I do that and I wish more people do that too instead of being boring ass b1tches
What I want to know is how is that person even remotely productive with constant distractions? We have a channel called “tech discoveries”
Some of us can afford to do that and still get work done and be a top performer because we work smart. I can outperform 100% of my team and I work 50% of the time than they do because they are less evolved and just work “hard” 100% of the time. This engineer could be using Pomodoro technique and breaking every 25 mins or so and switching to this leisure activity for 5 minutes for energy renewal before diving deep again for another 25 mins.
Good job on seizing the opportunity to make this about yourself combined with a brag. Cool story
You work in Toyota, can't you guys just kaizen a solution out?
We had that problem - I set up a new slack channel called "noise" where the team was encouraged to share anything that is not time sensitive and unimportant. It worked but it requires establishing clear guidelines on what kind of communication is okay in the team channel.
Initially I thought this way, the problem was the different perception of "what is important" and "what's not important". Ended up with maybe 10% less posts but still too overwhelming.
I like the idea of phrasing it as "time sensitive" or not vs "important" or not