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For Slack cofounder Stewart Butterfield, embarrassment can be a useful and motivating tool.Butterfield led Slack, which is now owned by Salesforce, from 2009 to 2023 as CEO. In 2014, he gave an interview where he called the early product “terrible.” Employees responded by putting posters up around the office, he…

In the age of ever-pinging Slack and Teams messages, disconnecting from work can feel impossible. Canva CEO Melanie Perkins recently shared how she logs off — and why digital boundaries are important.”I don’t have email or Slack on my phone,” Perkins said on Lenny’s Podcast. “When I shut my laptop,…