Hello, friends, and welcome to the Mini Edit from Edit Your Life. In these snack-sized mini

episodes, I answer your questions about everything from self-care to parenting, to relationships,

to home, and more. Think of me like that friend you text or call when you need a quick piece

of compassionate and candid advice.

Send me your questions. Today's mini is about how to disrupt responsive culture with

intention and care. At the end of last summer, I wrapped a wonderful client project. It was the one

project in my roster that required me to be on Slack, so after I closed it out,

I removed Slack from my desktop. And over the next week, I realized that I felt so much calmer.

Now, I understand and have enjoyed the utility of Slack, in particular, keeping conversations

in a thread, pinning key documents, cutting down on email traffic,

messaging in real time in a professional space. I definitely have never been a fan of giving clients

my personal phone number, and also, of course, sharing funny gifts, if appropriate. On the other hand,

it's not perfect. For example, keeping track of threads once you've opened a notification

and then the notification disappears is challenging. But the big issue is that I've always found

the platform and its steady stream of notifications disruptive given how I prefer and need to work.

In uninterrupted, focused blocks. Yes, I could try to ignore the notification number on the app icon

on my desktop while working on other things, but that's very challenging, which is, of course,

the point of notifications. During an episode on realistic time management tactics with Kelly Nolan,

which I definitely recommend you listen to, I was reminded that at this stage in my career,

the disruptive nature of technology at present is, well, especially disruptive.

Kelly made this point about the intersection of experience and responsiveness in the workplace.

We enter the workforce and we're junior, so the real way we contribute to the

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