Rebuilding Together
summary
Personal account of turning home into a DevOps workflow: she runs one-week family sprints, refactors the dining room into two adult workstations plus kids’ Zoom stations, and holds sprint retro Sunday dinners to iterate on childcare and productivity. She details hiring a biweekly deep cleaner, coping after all five family members catch COVID, eight weeks of outpatient therapy for complex PTSD, and concrete actions — check on teammates, offer pairing or mentoring, and be honest about mental health.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 1:04Personal pandemic struggles
- 3:12Remote work with kids
- 5:21Family devops and routines
- 8:29Rebuilding with grace
- 11:40Being the helpers
- 14:06Mental health matters
- 18:13Checking in on others
- 19:38Silver linings of pandemic
- 22:26Changed perspectives
- 25:14Call to rebuild together
- 26:58Closing and Q&A
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