Continuous Improvements DevOps and Mental Illness
summary
Describes living with ADHD as a dopamine deficiency that breaks working memory and executive function, cites a 2016 opt‑in tech survey where 42% report mental‑health issues, and maps DevOps practices onto coping tactics: observability via mood check‑ins and a feelings wheel, error budgets to allow rest or crisis care, and blameless retrospectives to separate performance from self‑worth. Recommends limiting work‑in‑progress, therapy or medication as tools that help but don’t “fix” everything, and lists hotlines and peer resources.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:00Shoutouts
- 2:06Suicide Prevention
- 3:06ADHD
- 13:30On Call
- 14:45Mental Illness
- 20:35Observability
- 23:35Error Budgeting
- 24:50Blameless Postmortems
- 26:43Performance is not your value
- 27:27Managing work in progress
- 29:13Recap
- 30:36Mental Health
- 31:30Resources
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