Why Burnout Is a System Problem
For most of my career I treated burnout the way I treated a flaky integration: as a symptom of someone, somewhere, not being careful enough. If an engineer was...
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Tagged #burnout
3 articles tagged #burnout.
The Cost of Always Being Available
Somewhere along the way, availability stopped being a courtesy and became an expectation. I noticed it in myself first: the reflexive glance at a phone during...
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The Quiet Cost of Hero Culture in Engineering Teams
Every engineering organization has a hero. The person who saves the launch at the last minute, who fixes the outage nobody else understands, who works the...
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