Copy Fail Tuesday properly did me in. Patched until stupid o’clock, slept four hours, did it again Wednesday. By Friday I was staring at the SIEM like it owed me money.

Found a long read this weekend that pulled me out of the spiral a bit. Will not link it in the post because rules, but happy to drop it in comments if anyone wants it.

The bit that landed for me was the argument that we have got the burnout conversation backwards. The wellness app and meditation breaks framing treats fatigue as a personal failing. It is not. It is what happens when the operating model assumes infinite human elasticity and the threat volume keeps compounding. AI vuln research is going to make that worse, not better. Patch queues are going to get longer.

The fix the writer pushes is structural. Build environments where persistence is hard by design. Segment properly so a breach does not become a mess. Lean on the open source detection ecosystem instead of having every team rewrite the same content. Boring stuff. Unsexy stuff. The stuff that actually reduces the number of 3am calls.

Honest question. What have you read recently that did not make you want to walk into the sea? My reading list is currently 90 percent doom and 10 percent vendor whitepapers and I need a better mix.