This page is part of my rant essay collection but first a short practical summary for anyone looking for informations:
- Prefer email, chats, social media,
- no voice chats or video conferences unless necessary,
- no telephone calls,
- if office door is open knock in
- work stuff is checked during office hours (Oslo timezone usually)
| Contact | Address (link) |
|---|---|
| flammie@iki.fi | |
| (work) | flammie.pirinen@uit.no |
| (google) | ffflammie@gmail.com (Google apps only¹) |
| IRC | Flammie on libera.chat |
| Flammie on OFTC | |
| github | Flammie on github |
| Zulip | GiellaLT Zulip (work) |
| matrix | @Flammie:matrix.org |
| ffFlammie | |
| tommi-pirinen | |
| ffflammie@gmail.com | |
| ffflammie | |
| Vkontakte | ffflammie |
| none | |
| Telegram | search |
| Skype | search |
| Zoom | search |
| ??? | |
| Mastodon | Mastodon |
| Mastodon | |
| bluesky | @flammie.name |
| Mail (work) | UiT Arctic University of Tromsø |
| NO-9037 | |
| PO Box 6050 |
¹ if you need to send an invite to a google-hosted app: Google calendar, Google forms, Google Plus, Google Duo, Google Docs, Google Happy Beer Hour or such, use this email address, email sent to this address goes to spam folder.
Traditionally I would've told everyone to use email for 99 % of things or IRC for real time discussions and it was good enough.
This was a good standard but has been breaking down as of late. Ironically, in times of where we are most reachable, most online, I have much less capability or possibility to actually respond than I used to. Things have become less reliable, more full of spam, and fair and square less usable than before.
To explain a bit more I wrote this page. The main point I have is that I am theoretically reachable online most of the time, but need to protect myself from distractions when working in flow state for example. I have compiled a list of features that communication channels have that are relevant:
- leaves a record, so I do not have to memorise things
- interrupts, if it requires immediate action such as answering when being called (also: push/pull)
- ...
Email used to be the obvious ideal choice, but recently we have been forced to use sub-optimal email systems: both microsoft and google are locking us to their products with multifactor authentication that doesn't play with other email clients. The spam filtering is done by them, badly. This means I miss a lot of mails, and cannot reply properly since I only have access to web page with no quote feature and forced top posting. Email does not interrupt me in flow state, I can setup notifications and pull interval. Email leaves perfect record of the conversation and if people inline post all, it's easy to follow, but that's a lost battle now I suppose.