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