End Toil by Doing Nothing. But Better. Perpetually.

In 25 years, I've worn pretty much all the hats in the software industry. A superpower that I got from my time in SRE was to recognize and eliminate my own personal toil . The Google SRE book defines organizational Toil as Manual, Repetitive, Automatable, Tactical, of No enduring value, and O(n) with service growth. Ignoring the focus on the organization or the service , how much of the work you are asked to do sounds like any of that? For me, I found that most non-SRE roles people spend most of