The Art of Sysadmin Podcast – A podcast about the human side of sysadmin

Burnout Hell

Content Warning:

This episode talks about various mental health episodes such as burnout and depression.

Here we are, the last episode of this season of The Art of Sysadmin. I left the heaviest topic for last.

Here is a rough list of things I talk about in this episode:

what is burnout?
what causes it?
overwork
not enough personal time
work intruding on personal time
fighting fires
what does it feel like?
feeling empty inside
feeling dead inside
depressive episodes
lack of self confidence
how do we prevent and/or mitigate it?
work-life balance
setting aside time specifically for personal growth and enjoyment
self care and balance
fuck capitalism, go home

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Finding Purpose and Joy

That sure is a title for a podcast episode eh? In this episode we talk about the following topics:

Why do I do this?
Fun
Learning
Work interest
The Joy of Building Infrastructure
Making Friends
Helping People

Reference links:

EntropyNet – the IRC network
Ten Forward – the fediverse instance

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In this episode I talk about the concept of cattle vs. pets and how it relates to the concept of scale and scaling. I talk about my particular methodology of management and how I came to it. I talk about the concept’s relation to designing systems and about simplicity and complexity in said design.

No Kubernetes clusters were harmed in the making of this episode.

Reference links:

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What’s in a name?

In this episode of The Art of Sysadmin, I talk about names. More specifically, I talk about the names we give computers: the hostname. I get into how I picked a naming scheme, what my methodology is and personal touches like references to certain characters from media I enjoy.

Some reference links:

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Introductions

Welcome to the very first episode of the The Art of Sysadmin podcast! This podcast is one where I approach various system administration topics from a more human perspective rather than a purely technical perspective.

This is for now a solo podcast, that is: it is just me talking into a mic. This first episode is me talking about myself and how I got into the hobby/field and my intentions for this podcast.

Thank you for listening, and if you enjoyed it please share the podcast with a friend!

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