(2023-01-02) Hon S14e01 The Hallway Track

Dan Hon: s14e01 - The Hallway Track. Over the break I had a chance to meet up with a few friends I haven’t seen in a long time

the inevitable thing that came up about wanting the conference experience back was “I really just want to go to hallway tracks again”, or “I just miss hanging out in the hotel bar with a group of people I don’t see often enough”.

Clearly you can’t exactly recreate the hallway track experience. But what are things that get close to it?

One thing I’ve noticed is – and I acknowledge I’m very likely weird an an outlier here – is the stupid number of Slacks (slack.com) I’m technically in.

This starts to feel dangerously like reintroducing circles (Google Plus) as a concept in social software, which I’m particularly wary of (people have tried!). But what might make a good Hallway Slack?

What about time-bound channels? Get invited to something and know it’s going to disappear in 2 weeks