“I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at S...” — Stewart Butterfield Quote

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

You can take a team of absolute all-stars in terms of their native abilities, but if they are not working together, they are much less effective than a team where there is less native ability but a higher degree of teamwork and cohesion.

Silicon Valley is the engine for wealth creation. They've displaced energy, they've displaced financial services, and if we don't start including a broader array of people in that, the same group of people is going to rise to the top.

In Slack, you create channels to discuss different topics. For a small group of people, those channels are relatively easy to manage and navigate.

I can honestly say, there was a moment when I was writing 'Upstream Color' where I fell so hard for what it was becoming that I couldn't think of anything else. I was absolutely secure in this story in the way I'm rarely secure about anything else in my life.

I went to LaGuardia, so I'm very close to the reality that lot of actors work rarely.

I very rarely watch anybody swing. All I do is follow where the ball goes.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.