Signal Vs Noise
Posted on Sat 14 November 2020 in productivity • Tagged with management, information
Signal Vs Noise
One responsibility of engineers & especially leads is managing many channels of signals : emails, blog posts (internal and external), tags , push notifications, group chats, alerts from dashboards and more.
These signals tend to scale exponentially to the number of projects & people that you are responsible for.
Quickly you'll need to set up a system to make sure that you are receiving high-signal information and filtering out low-signal noise. How do you do that?
For each channel, it's important to set up and continuously refine filters that matter to you.
Each system typically has filtering that can be configured …
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