On Notifications

Like many of you, I receive a variety of notifications by various means. Postal letters, email reminders, pop-ups on my laptop, audio signals on my mobile, highlighted chat application entries, text messages, phone calls, taps on the shoulder--the list is long! Thinking a bit more about this, one of the purposes of notification is to resynchronize otherwise asynchronous processes. You tell Google Assistant to set a timer for 15 minutes and go off to do something else. After 15 minutes, you get an audible reminder that the 15 minutes are up, and you should turn off the spaghetti before it turns to mush.