Career-Sysadmin

Put two Linux people in a room and one word is enough. Put a manager in that same room and suddenly you need an interpreter. The interruption is not the problem. The context switch is.

The hardest infrastructure decisions are not technical. They are operational.

We haven’t just outsourced our hardware; we’ve outsourced our technical problem-solving capability. The ultimate sovereignty question: when the system fails, who is allowed to fix it?

Return-to-office mandates are a systemic failure. Treating human infrastructure with the same flawed logic as bad server maintenance is why IT is burning out.

Most organizations don’t notice burnout. They notice silence. By the time they do, it is already too late.

A phishing simulation showed that even when people know what to do, there is often no correct decision to make. Organisations respond by managing reactions instead of fixing the conditions that caused the problem.

When one person consistently carries operational recovery, troubleshooting and undocumented infrastructure knowledge, organisations mistake dependency for stability.

The audit passed. The certificate is on the wall. And your security posture is still held together with duct tape and good intentions.

Een waarschuwing voor organisaties: in de zomer neemt mentale vermoeidheid toe, waardoor security-risico’s stijgen, ondanks dat systemen operationeel blijven.