


It features 1,001 dogs from cities around the world. The book version, titled The Dogist: Photographic Encounters with 1000 Dogs, is already on The New York Times 's best-seller list. Along the way, he has posted more than 3,300 images and gathered 1.5 million followers on Instagram, 50,000 followers on Tumblr, 70,000 on Facebook and 20,000 on Twitter. The 27-year-old’s canine adventures started with a blog a few years ago. That’s what makes a great image, taking something ordinary and making it feel dramatic,” said Friedman, who gets down on the dogs’ level despite being 6 feet 3 inches tall. “When I’m shooting photographs of dogs, I’m trying to get them looking right into the lens. What sets his pictures apart is how human he makes the canines seem.įriedman achieves the look by getting down on their level before shooting, making eye contact and creating a connection. After you post a new thread, other users can add comments, react with emojis and you can tag people.Elias Weiss Friedman has photographed thousands of dogs for his blog and book, The Dogist. If you want to start a conversation, you click on a channel, such as #design, #ios or #support, and then you start a thread with a title and some body text. In Twist, every conversation is a thread.

Twist’s strongest differentiating point with Slack is still there. And it’s impossible to have two conversations at the same time in the same channel. It’s hard to keep up, especially if you don’t work in the same time zone as the rest of the team. Slack or Microsoft Teams interrupt you all the time with notifications and chat messages. He has been promoting asynchronous communication for years.

Some companies that had a Microsoft 365 subscription started using Microsoft Teams, other companies spent a lot of time in Zoom meetings.ĭoist founder Amir Salihefendic thinks those tools don’t work well. Over the past couple of years, many teams started working remotely for the first time. While Doist started working on Twist way before the coronavirus pandemic, it feels like Twist is more relevant than ever. The result is an opinionated tool for internal conversations that should help you focus and keep the team on track. With today’s redesign, the company is doubling down on that idea. When I first covered Twist, I said it was like Slack without the annoying distractions. Doist, the company behind Todoist and Twist, has revamped its internal communication product Twist.
