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+# Use Memes
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+- **期号**: SRE Weekly Issue #428（2024-06-09）
+- **作者**: Ross Brodbeck
+- **链接**: https://hross.substack.com/p/use-memes
+
+## 简介
+
+> The effectiveness of memes in availability campaigns.
+
+This short post is a pile of memes, and the video one is top notch.
+
+## 正文
+
+As I have said before, availability isn’t usually “fun” and [one of the jobs of SRE is to evangelize](https://hross.substack.com/p/sre-evangelist). 
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+One of the more effective ways to communicate broad concepts is… a meme. It can feel… foolish… at a “professional” company to plaster goofy images all over the place and possibly even put yourself out there (even at GitHub), but it also works.
+
+Stupid things are way more memorable than boring powerpoint slides. Here are some that we have used at GitHub, not all of which I can take credit for.
+
+**In a campaign to get our engineers to declare internal incidents early and often:**
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+![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1GdG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa12c0691-0ebf-4f61-ba99-2e83ffeca81a_720x460.png)
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+**Rewarding our early incident commanders with challenge coins that have our oft repeated availability slogan (“Availability is Job 1”):**
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+![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TPQx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5b0a813f-62ae-433a-9765-c8a1e0ff7833_2770x2507.png)
+
+**Our required first responder training video has walruses attacking the data center (h/t [Kyle Robertson](https://medium.com/@jsakyle)):**
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+![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!306k!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F006a7a4c-7c7c-4a27-b60a-c1b7f564dcef_1142x716.png)
+
+**Here is me slamming my arm in a door to demonstrate mitigation vs. root cause** (broadway is not in my future)**:**
+
+Finally, I wanted to point out a great podcast episode about [David Henke building a culture of “site up” at Yahoo](https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/david-henke-on-building-a-culture) which also seemed to [feature its own memes](https://www.flickr.com/photos/rcarltonr/846179847):
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+![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DlV_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe53fc922-a19d-4a84-baad-d274086e7ef0_640x480.jpeg)
+
+Happy memeing!