A space to prepare a blog post on burnout.
This page is a Project.
- [ ] is there more than one audience? Audience: Managers? Audience: Resilience Engineers? - [ ] one article per audience? - [ ] different dimensions of burnout to consider?
Show (don't Tell) Articles, Insights, Cases, and Patterns: - [ ] describe Going Solid as a pattern - [ ] link a at least two cases to the Going Solid pattern - [ ] write an article about applying a resilience pattern to anticipate risks. There's a draft at Software Going Solid but it doesn't yet show the pattern and links to TMI and medicine
The story arc might be to start with my own sense of burnout—it started shortly after I started trying to influence leaders at my company. Share the insight that Burnout is a property of the Job and not (just) me. Speculate that the systemic problem is saturation of the leaders. Talk about four responses to overload—reduced thoroughness. Observe that SREcon & RISF featured widespread expressions of burnout. Reference Colette & Clint's episode. Shift to Going Solid—this pattern was well described 25 or 30 years ago in medicine. Observe the entanglement of 10 to 15 years of SaaS optimization. Speculate that the Software Industry is poised for examples of brittle collapse because we've been going solid for two years and now are piling on with new demands to AI everything. Thence to recommendations that there is likely a competitive advantage to the businesses that notice this risk and drastically reduce their own current load and invest in their adaptive capacity.
The story arc might also be Software Going Solid