No I mean async. Slack is async. A phone call/Zoom call/in person conversation is sync. Presence indicators are irrelevant and trivially defeated. Besides, what part of ADHD makes you unable to be generally "around"? Not aware of an ADHD symptom that makes it difficult to literally be on a computer at all...

People's expectations that you respond instantly have nothing to do with which app you use. They'll expect that via email if that's your work's culture.

> Slack is async. A phone call/Zoom call/in person conversation is sync.

Chat clients and Slack specifically are designed for sync primarily. GitHub discussions and email are wholly async. Basecamp has a chat feature not chat focus. I don't know Twist.

> Presence indicators are irrelevant and trivially defeated.

Presence indicators were relevant in the 1st comment. And what would victory be in this context?

> Besides, what part of ADHD makes you unable to be generally "around"? Not aware of an ADHD symptom that makes it difficult to literally be on a computer at all...

No one said anything like this.

> People's expectations that you respond instantly have nothing to do with which app you use. They'll expect that via email if that's your work's culture.

You said instantly. Not me or the person who wrote the 1st comment.

I believe data I saw over your assertion. Nearly 2 in 3 people in very different companies said expectations changed soon after their company or team started to use chat software. This excluded companies where near real time responses were expected already. Our tools shape us is a well known observation.

And that was not even the type of expectation I meant. The 1st comment talked about missing conversation while focused on tasks. This leads to being left out of decisions and so on.