Last winter, I removed the alert feed from the studio wall and replaced it with a single daily transmission at 08:00. Nothing failed. The team made fewer ceremonial updates, and the workbench stopped feeling like an airport departure board.
STATUS IS NOT A CONVERSATION
We built our systems to announce every tiny change because silence looked suspicious. But a useful instrument does not narrate itself. It gives you a clear signal when the threshold is crossed, then returns to the background where attention can do its actual work.