The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why #burnout happens: "You’re expected to follow half-a-dozen different specialities, each relatively fast-paced and complex in its own right, and you’re supposed to do it without cutting into the hours where you do actual paid web development." https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-deskilling-of-web-dev-is-harming-us-all/
Burnout in the FOSS community is real, and I'm glad that it's something that is being talked about more in blogs and conferences. There is a different flavor of burnout and emotional toll when you are sacrificing for a cause you believe in (especially in FOSS where people are often working for free or at below market rate). Working for a cause you believe in brings the highest highs when things are going well, but the lowest lows when they go badly.
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen, 2020
An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials—the cultural shifts that got us here, the pressures that sustain it, and the need for drastic change**
Do you feel like your life is an endless to-do list? Do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through Instagram because you’re too exhausted to pick up a book?
Why some researchers are approaching giftedness as a form of neurodivergence - and what that means for ‘gifted burnout’
Research has found that giftedness can look a lot like different types of neurodivergence in the brain.
By Liz Tung May 20, 2024
"...Zakreski says the field of giftedness has been changing over the past decade or so, thanks in part to fMRI studies showing that the brains of gifted children are physically different. This research could explain the challenges some gifted children experience, both with social and emotional issues, and with so-called “gifted burnout” — which, in some cases, leads to kids crashing and burning after a promising start.
The result — deep feelings of inadequacy and failure among teens and young adults who feel like they’ve wasted their potential, and failed at the one thing they were destined to do..."
J'suis dég.
J'ai fait mon premier burn-out à 30 ans en 2013, donc à une époque où le peu qui connaissaient pensaient que c'était un truc qui arrive pas avant 45 ans et des années acharnées de dur labeur, j'ai jamais été prise au sérieux ni par la médecine ni par mon entourage.
Et maintenant tout le monde pète son burn-out dans la plus grande normalité.
#BurnOut N°1 :
Contexte : J'ai failli crever d'un arrêt cardiaque à 25 ans dans l'indifférence générale de tout le monde qui croyait que j'exagérais la dégaine d'insuffisante cardiaque sévère, j'ai repris 2 ans d'études pour faire un vrai job qui donne du sens à ma vie, j'ai 29 ans, je débarque dans la Plus Belle Ville du Monde à 1200 bornes et 11h de TGV minimum de ma famille et de mes potes pour prendre un poste de responsable des travaux. Je travaille pour mon pays, j'ai signé avec mon sang, je suis fière, même si pour le prix ils auraient pu me filer un uniforme et une cérémonie pour que mes parents aient une chouette photo à mettre sur leur pêle-mêle.
Why cybersecurity staff burn out, and what to do about it
Based on Computing's research and interviews with two experts, we look at the causes of burnout among cybersecurity professionals and how more attention paid to this issue at board level could help shore up defences.
(Free reg)
I was back at my first job at iRobot. Some manager I currently follow on linked in last night had re-hired me.
I was excited to just make money again.
Howerver, I didn’t go to work on my second day because of burnout/depression.
I didn’t go to work on my third day because of the anxiety caused by not letting my employer know what was going on.
On the 4th day I went to work. They mocked my apology when I finally talked to them. While I was gone, manager and his friend coworker stormed the corporate housing I was staying at and put all my stuff on the street. They kicked me out and kept mocking me…
“Violence” in medicine: necessary and unnecessary, intentional and unintentional
Johanna Shapiro, 2018. Phil. Ethics, and Hum. in Med.
"I further suggest possible explanations for the origins of these kinds of violence in physicians, including the fear of suffering and death in relation to vicarious trauma and the consequent concept of “killing suffering”; as well as why patients might be willing to accept such violence directed toward them."
"When physicians are unable to honestly confront and acknowledge suffering; when out of fear they deny their privilege and the way in which healthcare systems often disenfranchise the patients they are trying to serve; when they inappropriately indulge in violent language out of self-protection and a desire to establish a heroic, invincible image – all these result in harm to patients, families, staff, and colleagues."