if you keep burning the candle at 110% like you have been for long, you’ll find that you often can find something deep within you to keep going, but eventually, this can run dry, and it doesn’t really regenerate. It takes something from you that you aren’t going to get back. - HN

Everyone talks about “burnout” as something that happens when you work too much.

I see it far more in people who work a normal amount on things they know don’t matter. - twitter / HN

• The job of the future will be complex, and therefore frustrating - In which we discuss a second driver of workplace stress—effort-reward imbalance—and learn why the term ‘burnout’ was originally reserved for human service workers.

Burnout and exhaustion are not the same, burnout comes from a combination of six main factors:

• Unsustainable workload
• Perceived lack of control
• Insufficient rewards for effort
• Lack of a supportive community
• Lack of fairness
• Mismatched values and skills

see also:

• Post Burnout Ideas
• The Burnout Machine / HN - We’re living in a world where billion dollar tech companies expect us to live and breathe code, demanding 80 hour weeks under the guise of “passion.” And what do we get in return? Burnout, anxiety, and the constant threat of layoffs.