At the same time, I underlined it.

I'm Stewart Butterfield CEO and one of the co founders of Slack and I need to be drying.

The future of work.

I think the future of work is going to be better co ordination between people.

So I'm going to draw a bunch of little dots and each of those dots is a person.

The way things work and look today is, there are as many little silos of information as there are dots on this graph.

And obviously people can send messages to anyone else and you can have an email that goes to more than one recipient.

But there is no one place where all of this comes together.

Each inbox is entirely isolated and separate.

You've got mail.

But with Slack and tools like Slack, you can create what are called channels and they create a place to hold information that is distinct from the individual people.

So bringing all this, all these conversations together means that when I wanna get an update on what's going on, I don't have to ask someone to stop what they're doing and prepare an update for me, I can just go look in the process of all these conversations and it's not just that I can see it, it's um that people across the company can see it.

I'm gonna draw a whole bunch of circles again.

So this will take a second.

All right, individual people are getting more productive.

The software tools are getting better and better with that comes a lot of increase in individual productivity And a lot of organizations, you end up in a situation where different people are pushing literally in different directions.

And the net effect of that is just a zero.

On the other hand, everyone moving together causes a lot more actual productivity at the organizational level.

I think the future of work is starting to think a lot more about organizational performance and how to align people.

Some things like take a second to say, but a long time to draw.