What is review cadence?

Review cadence is a concept in personal epistemology: Monitor too rarely and you miss problems; monitor too often and you create noise. Find the right cadence.

Example: A software engineer sets up Slack notifications for every single CI pipeline event — build started, tests passed, lint warnings, deployment queued. Within a week, she mutes the channel entirely. When a critical deployment fails on Friday afternoon, she misses it for three hours. Meanwhile, her colleague checks deployment status once at the end of each day and catches failures within his review window. The first engineer sampled too fast and created noise that destroyed the signal. The second sampled at a frequency matched to the rate of meaningful change.

This concept is part of Phase 28 (Agent Monitoring) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for agent monitoring.