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Re:Building Products at Stripe by ZephyrBlu on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @07:13PM (#27202527)
> Am I alone here in feeling like that all sounds incredibly exhausting and like a pretty draining place to work, and not-so-subtly seeks to attract workaholics?

Yes, but if someone loves what they do why wouldn't they want to immerse themselves in it and get paid well for it?

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Re:Building Products at Stripe by mikeortman on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @12:19AM (#27204529)
How to burnout 101. Setting an unrealistic performance expectation by doing what you love is fine, but that expectation won’t cease once you are asked to do something uninteresting or frustrating.
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