I couldn’t figure out why small, straightforward tasks on my to-do list felt so impossible. The answer is both more complex and far simpler than I expected.
The soft life: why millennials are quitting the rat race
Ambition once came with a promise: a home, a salary, progress and fulfilment. What happens when that promise is broken? Meet the women who are turning their backs on consumerism, materialism and burnout
The YouTube stars heading for burnout: ‘The most fun job imaginable became deeply bleak’
Why are so many YouTubers finding themselves stressed, lonely and exhausted?
Procrastination: It's pretty much all in the mind
Scans show differences in the brains of those who love to put things offs compared with the "doers".
From moms to medical doctors, burnout is everywhere these days
This state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion seems to be everywhere. But there are ways to fight it.
When Contributing to WordPress Full-Time Leads to Burnout
As a distributed worker, one of the toughest obstacles I face is burnout. It’s one of the reasons I took a month off from all things WordPress. According to Merriam-Webster, burnout is, ̶…
Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t
You want to be productive. Software wants to help. But even with a glut of tools claiming to make us all into taskmasters, we almost never master our tasks.
Report on Burnout in Open Source Software
I am currently working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software, and am inviting the OSS community to share their thoughts!
Less stress, more productivity: why working fewer hours is better for you and your employer
There’s always too much work to be done on software projects, too many features to implement, too many bugs to fix. Some days you’re just not going through the backlog fast enough, you’re not producing enough code, and it’s taking too long to fix a seemingly-impossible bug. And to make things worse you’re wasting time in pointless meetings instead of getting work done. Once it gets bad enough you can find yourself always scrambling, working overtime just to keep up. Pretty soon it’s just expected, and you need to be available to answer emails at all hours even when there are no emergencies. You’re tired and burnt out and there’s still just as much work as before. The real solution is not working even harder or even longer, but rather the complete opposite: working fewer hours.
You Can Help Solve Burnout in Open Source
A list of people and projects working on structural solutions to problems that cause burnout in open source software
It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity
We need fewer things to work on. Starting now.
3 Cognitive Habits of People Who Get Things Done
High-achieving workers have these things in common.
Stop Working So Hard
In response to a thoughtful reply from John Carmack, I share some thoughts on why we all need to stop working so damn hard.
The key to loving your job in the age of burnout
In 2009, two US professors set out to study zookeepers and aquarium workers in an effort to discover what kept them motivated at work.
How I Went from Burn-out Entrepreneur to Automating my $4M Company and 10x my Productivity.
Building a business is hard enough. On its official website, the U.S. Small Business Administration purports that “roughly 50 percent of…
Burnout Phase Transition - meri's missives
Modelling chronic stress effects on my mental health and the end of monopolies