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I can do the same and also didn't know how to explain it until I stumbled upon this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/earrumblersassemble/

So apparently we can control our tensor tympani muscle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle

Author here.

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).

Good point about the technical founder. That was certainly the case for us, as our CTO handled many issues himself.

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.

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.

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 for your work! Harmonic is one of my most used apps. It's a joy to use, and I love the design (including the logo)!

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.

Hi! It's good to see you here! Let me know if you do start "sharing." I'd love to check it out.

And thanks for the tip. I've been using Notion, but I've kept my eye on Obsidian and Roam too.

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.

Author here. Nope! Life has just been very busy in the last year. I'm going to try to write more consistently again, starting with this post.

My rule is: if I get a single notification that I find useless, I'll immediately disable that notification channel (I'm on Android; I'm not sure if iOS has a concept of channel-specific settings) for that app. Even if the channel can include useful notifications, as the article discusses.

If the app doesn't bother to categorize its notifications into channels at all, I turn off its notifications entirely, and I won't turn it back on.

If something is important enough, I can always manually check on it. My attention is too valuable to me to waste it on useless notifications.

I do want more control over my notifications in general. I use Google Apps Script to automatically process/triage my email, and I want to do something similar with notifications. I can probably do so using Tasker, but I haven't gotten around to it.