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Lab hygiene rituals that keep shared sandboxes trustworthy

Priya Menon · 2025-09-22

Colour-coded cable wraps hanging beside labelled drawers

Shared accounts rot when teams forget to detach volumes. We start each Monday with a ten-minute “garbage sweep” demo led by a different pair of students.

Tag policies are boring until someone pays a surprise invoice. We pair tag authoring with short peer critiques so naming schemes stay boring in a good way.

Graduates leave with a checklist they can paste into their own runbooks—nothing proprietary, just habits that survived three cohorts of real mistakes.