You don't control the Friday deploy
The dichotomy of control applied to incidents: what Epictetus would say in the middle of a rollback at 6:47pm on a Friday.
stoic.log
Marcus Aurelius wrote his Meditations as a private journal — a log. This is mine: Stoic philosophy applied to the daily practice of building software.
You do not control the roadmap, the market or the pager. You control your craft, your judgment and your response. This log is about that second list.
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- The Dichotomy of Control
What actually depends on you in software work — and the peace of ignoring the rest. Roadmaps, layoffs and outages are not on the list; your craft, judgment and response are.