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…
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Having ideas and a desire to help is a sort of kryptonite for me. I live to serve and help but I don’t have the spoons, energy, et al to do it all. I need a cohort of body doubles. It’s not that I fancy myself a manager or director, but I’m just not enough for all the doing.
I’m looking forward to being in an Autism panel next week. And helping arrange caregiver events in May. The burnout risk is real and triggers negative self-thoughts.
“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."
This is a fascinating glimpse into the beginning of the #xz exploit, i.e. the social engineering.
Some users (accomplices of the attacker?) used the dev mailing list to badger and harass the maintainer of the project who was on the verge of burnout, to pressure him to grant co-maintainer status to the attacker.
Whether this was part of the attack or not, it’s a sad glimpse into the toxic pattern often found in open-source software, where users demand maintainers’ free labor, instead of helping them strike a healthy work-life balance.
💲Software Needs To Be More Expensive | blog.glyph.im
「 For most maintainers, Tidelift pays a sub-hobbyist amount of money, and even setting it up (and GitHub Sponsors, etc) is a huge hassle. So even making the transition from “no income” to “a little bit of side-hustle income” may be prohibitively bureaucratic 」
Relistening to this Millennials Are Killing Capitalism after having seen the images coming out of Al-Shifa hospital after the IOF massacred 100s of people there. Don't @ me about "battle" when IL soldiers have documented their own war crimes.
Mental Health Check: Unpacking Affect and Resisting Psychic Intrusion with Lara Sheehi
"Many people are feeling burnt out and struggling a lot mentally, amid the constant mobilizations to stop the genocide being enacted in Gaza. And many people are experiencing incalculable trauma through the loss of family, friends, comrades and more. Dr. Lara Sheehi will join MAKC Live! for a discussion on mental health.
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Lara's work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author [...] of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is the author of the forthcoming book, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto Press, 2025)"
Relistening to this Millennials Are Killing Capitalism after having seen the images coming out of Al-Shifa hospital after the IOF massacred more than 400 people there. Don't @ me about "battle" when IL soldiers have documented their own war crimes.
Mental Health Check: Unpacking Affect and Resisting Psychic Intrusion with Lara Sheehi
"Many people are feeling burnt out and struggling a lot mentally, amid the constant mobilizations to stop the genocide being enacted in Gaza. And many people are experiencing incalculable trauma through the loss of family, friends, comrades and more. Dr. Lara Sheehi will join MAKC Live! for a discussion on mental health.
[...]
Lara's work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author [...] of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is the author of the forthcoming book, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto Press, 2025)"
Really had a nice time at a rubiks cubing event Saturday. But it also utterly burned me out. Way bigger than normal, and a lot of sitting and waiting because naturally they experimented with new procedures in the same 4x larger venue.
Need a deeper darker hole to wallow in this time. Sunday wasn’t enough.
Personally, I have nothing against the emergence of new #programming languages. This is cool:
the industry does not stand still;
competition allows existing languages to develop and borrow features from new ones;
developers have the opportunity to learn new things while avoiding #burnout;
there is a choice for beginners;
there is a choice for specific tasks.
But why do most people dislike the :clang: #clang so much? But it remains the fastest among high-level languages. Who benefits from C being suppressed and attempts being made to replace him? I think there is only one answer - companies. Not developers. Developers are already reproducing the opinion imposed on them by the market. Under the #influence of hype and the opinions of others, they form the idea that C is a useless language. And most importantly, oh my god, he's unsafe. Memory usage. But you as a #programmer are (and must be) responsible for the #code you write, not a language. And the one way not to do bugs - not doing them.
Personally, I also like the :hare_lang: #harelang. Its performance is comparable to C, but its syntax and elegance are more modern.
And in general, I’m not against new languages, it’s a matter of taste. But when you learn a language, write in it for a while, and then realize that you are burning out 10 times faster than before, you realize the cost of memory safety.