How is a baker like a sysadmin?

There’s this idea in IndieWeb circles of the admin tax. That’s the work you have to do in order to be somewhat independent of the big silo platforms, the price you pay instead of paying with your attention. Mostly, I not only don’t mind, I quite enjoy some aspects of the tinkering, but as you move into the upper echelons of independence, so too the admin tax rate goes up. And there’s another weird thing. If you’re doing this for love rather than as a job, paying the tax gets harder and harder because the instructions you find online are very often geared to those whose job it is to do the admin. This drives me nuts, but in expounding on the problem to The Squeeze, I realised I’m no better myself. Let me explain. Another area of life in which I aim to independent of big industry is bread. I have baked my own bread, on and off, since being old enough to object to my mother’s Grant Loaf. I switched to 100% natural leavens some time in the mid 1990s, and kept going all the way through…