Chris Welcome to Ops All The Things, your podcast for all things DevOps, SysAdmin and Operations.
Chris I'm Chris Webber
Steve and I'm Steve Murawski and this show is being recorded on January 29th, 2014.
Steve Today we have our first guest, Tom Limoncelli. Tom is a co-worker of mine at Stack Exchange,but more importantly he's the author of Time Management For Systems Administrators and a frequent presenter on Time Management techniques. Welcome to the show Tom!
(Quick chat about current status)
- Chris - AppSec California
- Chris - Guard
- Steve - We are hiring - both for our SRE team as well as our internal IT team
Time Managment
- Thank Bryan Berry for suggesting the topic
- Finding time for all the things
- From Bryan
- Family
- Firefighting
- New features for users
- Developing ones skills
- Community
- From Bryan
- Tips and tricks for keeping track of it all
- How do we track open commitments?
- How do we make time for project work, yet deal with interruptions?
- Discuss burnout and that helpless feeling
- Technical Debt and 'Temporary' Things
- This just came up on a mailing list I'm on. Several consultants noted that when they contract out most of their scripts generated as part of their work product were treated as "throw-away".
- Yak Shaving and Bike Shedding
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