You Are Part Of The Infrastructure

The Idea

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DeadSwitch isn't just a person. DeadSwitch is an operational model.

A good model is constantly evolving.

Today's failure subject: health.

You don't maintain only digital or mechanical systems.
You operate at least one biological mechanism as well. Yourself.

  • How can a system operate if the operator disappears?
  • What can your health issues mean to your managed systems?

The idea isn't just the "go to wellness".

Maintain your health, as you maintain your system's health.

The Human Side

We - humans - are like a highly adaptive system.

  • Our hardware and software are tightly integrated.
  • Our "design" is still not understood entirely.
  • We operate by complex rules.
  • We follow patterns.
  • We need rest after peak times.

Every system needs maintenance. Ours isn't an exception.
Our software - our cognitive system cannot work with faulty hardware.
Our hardware - the body doesn't work well with a software with flaws.

The analogy ends here - we are much more than a computer.

As an operator you can - and must - maintain your own health.

Mental Health

As technical people you rely a lot on your cognitive abilities.
Unavoidable stress affects your performance.

  • The memory becomes weaker.
  • The processing speed decreases.
  • The emotional guard degrades.

As a responsible operator it's your task to restore your cognitive capacity.
The brain is like a muscle, it needs to release the tension sometimes.

Software under load has degraded performance.

Physical Health

The hardware - as you saw earlier - can affect the running software.
Your physical condition can seriously degrade your performance as an operator.

  • With aching back you can't sit and perform properly.
  • Headache can decrease your problem solving abilities.
  • A weak hardware cannot run high-performing systems.

The faulty hardware makes the software's work more difficult.

Final Whisper

As the operator your systems rely on you.
If the operator disappears, the system's exposure is higher.
It can stop. It can break.

Health is a great factor in such disappearances.
You are responsible for your own mental and health system too.

Monitor. Analyze. Recover.

You can change memory or RAM. You can't replace your body.

This was the first whisper about this topic.
DeadSwitch will complile some "Operate The Operator" topics. Later.

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