Circa 1997 a coworker lamented that he had signed up for some email list, and attempts to unsubscribe weren’t working (more of a manual thing, IIRC). I made the suggestion to set up a cronjob to run hourly, to send an email request to be unsubscribed. It would source a text file containing the request to be unsubscribed. And with each iteration, it would duplicate the text from the file, effectively a geometric progression. The list owner responded about a week or so later, rather urgently requesting that my coworker cut it out, saying that he would remove him from the list. Apparently the list owner had been away on vacation the entire time.
I’m in a similar situation and hadn’t thought of it that way. My take on the email I receive is that they fall into one of these categories: a) genuinely intended for me (and not spam), b) spam, c) genuinely intended case of mistaken address (they forgot to include another character), d) someone using mine as their throwaway (site sending verification email), and e) someone using mine as their throwaway (no verification process, ergo not altogether different from spam).
I do something somewhat similar which has evolved for myself and in part for my team. What follows is heavily abridged in the interest of time.
I use Obsidian as follows:
1. Daily log in bullet-point format. Title in YYYY-MM-DD format. Bottom of log has [[YYYY-MM-DD]] with tomorrow’s date.
If I get into a task that starts to get a bit ‘chatty’ and/or would benefit from capturing stdin/stdout/stderr snippets, I’ll use the [[blah]] trick and dump it there.
If a particular priority task didn’t get tended to, I copy that into tomorrow’s daily before stepping afk for the day.
Gets shared with manager, etc.
2. Weekly summary using the ![[Week ending YYYY-MM-DD]] embedded view Obsidian feature in my daily log page. For that at-a-glance warm fuzzies. This boils down to:
I use this page for my 1:1’s of course. I’ve only very recently started copying the retrospective to my manager via Slack to ensure he’s got the goods.
I prep my incoming week with a new weekly summary, and pre-populate the bare bones for the daily notes.
Is it possible they’re trying to separate out candidates who studied English literature as a matter of typical high school education vs those who studied ESL back in their home countries?
Back around 20 years ago I was with an MSP. We depended heavily on having a well written - as current as possible - prod guide for all operations.
At some point it occurred to me that there was likely a way to draw upon the experiences of those who came before us. In my case, it seemed fitting to use newspapers as a reference.
Somewhere I’d come across a concise guideline, a list of do’s and don’ts. The only thing I clearly recall now is keeping the key info “above the fold”, which is likely something that might puzzle someone who has never handled a newspaper. Even so, the concept is easy to share and grasp.
I wish I’d kept that list. I’ve tried looking for it within the past couple years, to no avail.