Live in Sydney and have had the cockatoos in our bins a few times in the past six months. They’re pretty brazen too, caught them at it a while ago and they carried on like I wasn’t there.
Started leaving a brick on the lid which seems to work.
Nicely put. In my nearly three decades of software development, the most successful of my various colleagues have been the ones motivated by understanding the problem and its wider context, rather than the tech/process/language _de jour_.
This is a multiplier because it allows them to detect and ignore non-problems and work on problems whose solutions _will_ deliver value.
Started leaving a brick on the lid which seems to work.