The four heights
The same task, four distances: today's deadline, the next reviewer, the stuck moment, the pattern.
Execute — do the immediate task
+I need to tell the engineering team that the deploy window is pushed from 6pm to 8pm because we…
Execute — do the immediate task
+I need to tell the engineering team that the deploy window is pushed from 6pm to 8pm because we found a hot memory leak. Send a short message to #eng-ops saying: we’re moving tonight’s deploy from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM due to a memory leak discovered in staging. Postmortem to follow by end of day tomorrow. Ping @Ravi and @Marta for immediate questions.
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Improve — make it easier to accept
+Before I post the deploy delay to #eng-ops, make it easy for people to see what matters: lead with…
Improve — make it easier to accept
+Before I post the deploy delay to #eng-ops, make it easy for people to see what matters: lead with the new time and why, include the risk level, and add who to ping. Message should read: Deploy moved to 8:00 PM — memory leak in staging. Risk: can cause OOM on prod. Please don’t push hotfixes without coordinating. Contact @Ravi for triage, @Marta for rollback plan.
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Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+We found a memory leak in staging that could cause OOM in prod. I’m about to tell #eng-ops but I’m…
Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+I just detected a memory leak in staging and found it might impact tonight’s deploy.
We found a memory leak in staging that could cause OOM in prod. I’m about to tell #eng-ops but I’m not sure how blunt to be. People will panic and block other work if I overstate it; if I understate it they’ll miss the rollback window. What phrasing gets attention without triggering chaos and who should I @ for fastest triage?
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Become — change the pattern
+We keep getting last-minute deploy issues and my short messages to #eng-ops spark frantic…
Become — change the pattern
+I repeatedly send terse deploy updates that prompt frantic threads and follow-ups.
We keep getting last-minute deploy issues and my short messages to #eng-ops spark frantic multi-threaded replies and accidental overrides. Where am I wasting time and credibility, and what habit should I change so notifications are clear, actionable, and reduce reactive firefighting?
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