Burnout

This X post by Emmett Shear (most famous for being CEO of Twitch) had a huge impact on how I think about burnout.

Emmett describes 3 main causes of burnout (paraphrased):

• Permanent On-call: Never having true time off, because work can always reach you (or in the case of very intense jobs, because the work never actually ends). I had always

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Travers suggests that recovery begins with clarity: unplug, reflect, and realign your behavior with your values. Without that step, even success can feel empty. But when alignment returns, so does a sense of direction. You stop just managing tasks and start acting with purpose again.

Both writers stress that burnout comes not from overwork but from... See more