InTextio BlogbyKieran Snyder·Jul 13, 2021Slack is no place to write the Great American NovelAnd it’s terrible for your everyday project update, tooA response icon2A response icon2
InTextio BlogbyKieran Snyder·May 13, 202115 months of reflectionWe were raising our Series A round. It was 2015. An investor who had given us a term sheet took my co-founder, who also happens to be my…
InTextio BlogbyKieran Snyder·Jan 21, 2021What a president sounds like: Dominance vs. democracyThe road to this morning’s inauguration has been filled with history-defining moments. The white supremacist attack on the Capitol two…A response icon1A response icon1
Kieran Snyder·Jul 9, 2020My radically reductionist Slack experimentAt Textio, we were early adopters of Slack. From our earliest days, our internal communication was Slack-first, not email-first. In our…
InTextio BlogbyKieran Snyder·Jun 4, 2020We need a new normal because the one we have is racist.To be silent about the violence facing the Black community is to be complicit in systemic racism.
Kieran Snyder·Mar 19, 2020Leadership in the time of COVID-19The last few weeks, I have held my breath constantly. I’m not always aware that I’m doing it. I am in a near-permanent state of waiting…A response icon1A response icon1
InTextio BlogbyKieran Snyder·Mar 2, 2020The 2016 election reshaped the language of businessAnd 2020 is poised to do it again
InTextio BlogbyKieran Snyder·Mar 7, 2019What I talk about when I’m looking for tacosThe language that works when we chat in SlackA response icon1A response icon1
InTextio BlogbyKieran Snyder·Oct 18, 2018Choose technology that fits your teamAre you buying software with your team’s experience in mind? They may not think so
InTextio BlogbyKieran Snyder·Aug 13, 2018Why bots aren’t after your jobJob automation talk is everywhere. Will AI replace us? Will robots make it hard for people to find work? If bots take jobs, should they pay…
