Topic
Burnout
My writing, talks, podcasts, and projects about Burnout.
Selected work
Talk
Conf42 Observability 2026
Health Checks for Systems. What About Your Team?
Applying system-level observability to team health: using signals from the stack to detect unsustainable on-call rotations and overwork before they lead to burnout and resignations.
Talk
DevOpsDays Austin 2026
The Science of On-Call Burnout: Why "How Are You Doing?" Always Gets "Fine"
Why traditional burnout detection fails in engineering teams. Connecting Maslach's burnout research and the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory to observable on-call metrics, and demonstrating that observed data outperforms subjective self-reporting.
Podcast
Humans of Reliability
Stephen Townshend — SRE Team Lead at isDown
Burnout doesn't ask permission — the physiology of burnout from an incident responder's perspective, warning signs, recovery, and the systemic changes the industry must make.