A hacker was working at a large company where he had just been hired. One morning, the project manager asked him:

“I want to see what you’re doing. Send me email reports of everything you do.”

Eager to please, the apprentice set up a script to email his boss on every git commit he would do.

This worked fantastically the first week, and the apprentice was delighted to have pleased his boss. On the first day of the second week, the apprentice was figuring out a nasty bug, when the manager erupted in his office:

“I haven’t seen a single commit from you this morning, what are you doing?!”.

Embarrassed, the apprentice didn’t know what to say. He turned to his left, where sat a greybeard hacker who had been at the company for decades. Slowly, looking at the angry manager, the wise hacker said:

“I’ve changed a setting on the email server; you’ll now get daily digests.”

At that moment, the apprentice was enlightened.