{"id":4177,"slug":"sentinel-organism","name":"sentinel organism","type":"concept","created_at":"2026-08-08T23:17:27.102841+00:00","hidden":0,"aliases":[],"episodes":[{"id":"cb0d436c-ad7e-41fd-af42-4d7446742472","slug":"episode-one-hundred-and-forty-eight-better-days","subject":"Episode One Hundred and Forty Eight: Better Days","title":"Better Days","publish_date":"2014-08-22T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":8,"season":null,"episode":148,"episode_label":"episode 148","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-one-hundred-and-forty-eight-better-days/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1380,"context":" … There's a few things that stuck in my mind:\n\n\n\n- the concept of a <mark>sentinel organism</mark>. It seems similar to Tim O'Reilly's concept of \"weak signals … ","reading_minutes":7}]}