Spacetime Management: Lessons from the Stoics
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Argues that Stoic virtues map to concrete DevOps practices and gives a handful of usable artifacts: runbooks and playbooks for confident incident action, blameless postmortems to find root causes, and chaos engineering and premortems to fight entropy. Promotes the mental model do delegate drop for prioritization and shows a physical mortality calendar as a forcing function for focus. Claims these practices reduce toil, increase velocity, and change decision-making by shifting what is controllable versus what must be accepted.
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