Being involved with software professionally and woodworking as a hobby, I can recommend that talk. The parallels he draws are so good that I was almost angry with myself for not seeing them before watching that talk.
That part where you have to make a commit in order to attempt to fix a CI problem was driving me nuts. It‘s the same with Travis.
Concourse gets this right - you can run a pipeline task as a one-off from your workstation until it’s done, and only then check it in. And even ssh into the build container in order to debug build failures.
I leave the handling of those situations to Lastpass. My wife and kids may request access to my password locker, and if I don't reject within 30 days the locker is opened to them.
Not sure if this particular library is an improvement, but even if it serves nothing but the author’s enjoyment, or education, it’s a win.