Signal vs. Noise

Ridzki Noviansyah
Nov 3 · 1 min read
Image by Tanner Boriack from Unsplash

By now, we know that signal is quickly dampened by the noise around it.

But on some occasion, we usually didn’t pay enough attention to the signal despite of the obviousness.

We didn’t take notice to that pain in the guts, nor the bloating feeling when we had anxiety. The next thing we know, we end up in the emergency room, in a fetal position holding the pain, and the doctor diagnosed:

Gastroenteritis, caused by stress-related work.

That gastroenteritis that happened to you could be an isolated incident because you didn’t pay attention to the signal. However, if you’re working in an organization and it’s not only you who got the disease, but half of the organization is, it’s no longer an isolated incident.

It means that the organization failed to notice the signal or the management refuse to acknowledge it.