Toil Is a Boring, Repetative Work That Does Not Gain You a Permanent Improvement

Toil is boring or repetative work that does not gain you a permanent improvement. A the reason that sare talks so much about toil is because toil is the environment of the ops engineer it's kind of in our pre history. And we try to get as far away from it as possible by doing things like automating a release process. Manually running a release of a binery is oil. It' not gained you anything. You haven't learned anything. You're just doing it. So i would say i wouldn't put responding to pages as toil, unless you're getting the same page, or the same type of page repeatedly. And then it's toil