Today on this ol' server

Time Management for system administrators

This year started off with a bang. I did finally start to stick to that organizer. Being a system admin, I never really have time to leave a terminal. There's this one more ticket, there's this one more server, this just this one more email, no, over here, this really important user, over there, there's this important manager's manager. The good news is sysadmintaffyosis can be treated.

I found Tom Limoncelli's "Time Management for System Administrators". It has absolutely saved my sanity (other than cycling.) Tom presented to BayLISA a while back, and google has some of the videos.

Tom's system admin blog is also a great resource,

and Ben Rockwood recently updated his techniques.

I have been able to get more work done, by implementing the cycle system. Step one is to not read email when I first get to work. After 21 days, I've trained myself to resist email until I update my PAA and (manually) sync it with my electronic calendar. (For those of you who don't have the book and have missedemailphobia, if something truly important were to happen an email would go to my phone, or someone would call me.)

Way to go Tom for this awesome resource.

Also, if any of you readers really dig the videos please email the good people at baylisa so they will know to continue to tape and update the videos. Without feedback from the community, the baylisa group will just go back to playing nethack.

Posted at 01:11AM Feb 06, 2007 by saf in Sun  |  Comments[0]