It's an unusual comparison, but this New Yorker story about a Buddhist monk maintaining the equivalent of a suicide hotline in Japan struck me as one of the bes

It's an unusual comparison, but this New Yorker story about a Buddhist monk maintaining the equivalent of a suicide hotline in Japan struck me as one of the best things I've read about the difficulty of being a maintainer: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/24/last-call-3 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/24/last-call-3