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Re:Burnout from an Organizational Perspective by toast0 on Sunday June 13, 2021 @03:04AM (#27490449)
I think you get to burnout pretty quivk with overwork and no worthwhile ouput, but you can also get there with overwork and good output over a long enough period, too.
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Re:Burnout from an Organizational Perspective by danielheath on Sunday June 13, 2021 @07:38PM (#27497669)
It’s not enough for the output to be good; you have to feel like it was worthwhile.

Building and shipping great software that goes on to have few or no users? Burnout.

Building widely used software but you come to believe it does more harm than good? Also burnout.

Avoiding it requires believing in the value of the things you have done; imo overwork can only speed up the process, but will not cause it if you believe in the rightness of what you are doing.

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