That's a good hypothesis! But I have a strong preference for email over SMS for communication from companies, so I receive almost no texts from credit card companies. It's pretty much limited to an occasional authentication code for logging in (since TOTP-based two-factor is so unfortunately rare).
I know it sounds bad, but in practice, it really did work fine for us for quite a while.
1. We didn't experience that many incidents that couldn't wait until working hours.
2. There was never an explicit expectation to keep an eye out. We did it anyway because we were at an early-stage startup, and we all deeply cared about making our products work for our customers.
I know this from a few startups and it really is not that bad. You really triage what should wake you up and what's ok until morning. It works well as long as the technical founder is ok playing a goalie and essentially being always on call (even though others catch a lot of alarms).
It stops working when the company grows and no one understands the whole system and you need on-calls from several teams. Then the company does some formal on call rotation and it's fine again. It hurts during the transition only.
Writing this post did make me think that if someone had a well-trained dog, they could hook up a monitoring service to something that makes a particular sound, which tells the dog to alert the person.
Her name was (I sadly lost her to cancer) Bamboo! Because one of the first things she did after I adopted her was to try to eat my bamboo plant.
And as an added bonus, we could get that dog classified as a service dog :D
“Sir you need to leave that mutt outside!”
“He’s a service dog”
“Why? You don’t look like you have any disabilities”
“Wow. First of all – rude! Second, yeah you are right I don’t but you see he’s my DDoS dog and I need him with me at all times to protect the company servers”
Yep, I know it could only invite more trouble. It was fun to fantasize about though, especially after watching the video I linked to in the post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWzz3NeDz3E
Thank you very much! I actually made the logo with matplotlib by just plotting a bunch of sines with integer frequencies and put it together in Photoshop and feel like it's held up OK
I had the same problem with masks. I eventually bought a pair of swimming goggles and covered it with tape to block out light. It rarely slips off and is reasonably comfortable.
Author here. That's a great point, and it's true for me as well. I should have mentioned that under the "Be Able to Provide a Link" section since I reference my own posts sometimes.
Danny! We worked together at BB :) I especially like,
"I don't claim to actually know all that much, but everyone has something worth sharing."
I've resisted blogging for a long time for fear of not having anything to talk about, but couching it as "sharing" feels like a much better (more generous, more motivating) POV.
If you aren't currently using any "knowledge management" software, you may want to check out Obsidian or Roam Research. I bet you'd get a lot out of it.
So apparently we can control our tensor tympani muscle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle