Thermostats

Bob blew up Slack before the standup even started. Notifications bounced and pinged. Channels filled with five-alarm emoji. “Urgent” flags multiplied like bad stickers across Outlook. Meetings popped up like mushrooms, each with the same headline: “EMERGENCY” and each with no agenda, but many demands. Bleary-eyed people scrambled to screens, paged teammates still asleep, spun up war rooms, and…