> Is there anyway to keep oneself occupied with technical stuff in a managerial role? It's been 1.5 years since I transitioned from a Solution Architect role a

> Is there anyway to keep oneself occupied with technical stuff in a managerial role? It's been 1.5 years since I transitioned from a Solution Architect role and into a Technical Manager role, and I still struggle to keep myself out of my devops-team's kitchen. I'll still offer advice and direction based upon my past experience, but try to maintain those "teachable moments." But for me, the only way I could fully scratch that technical itch is to pick up some hobby electronics projects at home. Ironically, most recently I ended up building an Arduino traffic signal light for the office, interpreting data from our Sensu/Telegraf/New Relic APIs, just to show my team when our servers are struggling. Heh