Heroism in the time of COVID-19

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1. Heroism in the time of COVID-19 Jennifer Davis, @sigje Engineering Manager, Google
2. What is a hero? @sigje
3. A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell
4. Industry usage • Going the extra mile • Hacking up a solution • Long weekends • Handling the toil @sigje
5. Results • Relationships? • Sleep? • Job Satisfaction? • Self Confidence? Photo by Ketut Subiyanto from Pexels
6. I did not know how to value who I was versus what I did. What I did was who I was. Erin Callan
7. Burnout Causes • Work Overload • Lack of Control • Insufficient Rewards • Workspace Community Problems • Lack of Fairness • Conflict between personal values and requirements of the job @sigje
8. Exhaustion Funnel
9. @sigje
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12. 5 Conditions of "Happy" Work • Freedom • Challenge • Education • Positive Environment • Personally meaningful contribution @sigje
13. Empathy for yourself.
14. You are more than your work. @sigje
15. Take time to fuel yourself. @sigje
16. Learn something new. @sigje
17. Monitor YOUR system. @sigje
18. Recovery @sigje
19. Empathy for others.
20. Eliminate toil in your environment. • Monitoring noise. • Flaky tests. • Manual configuration. • Manual provisioning. • Manual infrastructure management. @sigje
21. If you can’t change your job Change your Job.
22. Twitter: @sigje
23. Resources • Burnout.io • Maslach Burnout Inventory • The Truth about Burnout Christina Maslach and Michael P Leiter