burnout

5 posts tagged “burnout”.

  1. A hiker chooses between a clear mountain path and a thorn-covered path that loops back on itself.
    4 min readPerspectives

    Not all discomfort is building you

    Three kinds of hard, and the dangerous one is indistinguishable from the good one. How to check whether you're learning or just coping.

  2. A person struggles along a coastal path carrying an unstable tower of papers, boxes and books.
    3 min readPerspectives

    The weekend that broke me

    Sixty hours in an office, one immovable deadline, and what I learned about my own judgment when appreciation turned out to be the entire transaction.

  3. A person tends a small green plant in a mostly empty studio lit by a narrow patch of warmth.
    3 min readPerspectives

    The selfish reason to still care

    Detachment is a rational response to corporate work. It also dulls the judgment you were protecting. On caring about the craft rather than the company.

  5. A person sits compressed into a narrow office chair beside an open view of mountains and water.
    3 min readPerspectives

    The job was fine, so why did it flatten me

    The work was fine and I still finished every day flattened. On the difference between a bad job and a lonely one, and the cost of carrying it alone.