Articles by Tag #burnout
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I Think Game Dev Isn’t My Thing (And That’s Okay)
I’ve made a few games over the years — joined some game hackathons, shipped small projects — but...
Why Your Side Project Remains Unfinished: Burnout Explained
Photo by Eden Constantino on Unsplash We all been there—you have this revolutionary idea for a...
Burnout, PIP and Self-Doubt | Looking for Career Advice After a Hard Fall
Disclaimer: This post is meant to talk about the current state of my career and mental health in...
Breaking the Hero Culture: Why Sam's Burnout Nearly Killed MyCoCo's Growth
How MyCoCo transformed from relying on a single 'hero' engineer to building a resilient team that could scale operations without creating dangerous knowledge bottlenecks.
🧠 When to Seek Help: 5 Clear Signs You Might Need a Therapist
💡 Mental health is like code — if you ignore warnings too long, small bugs can turn into system...
Coping After Trauma: Practical Strategies to Rebuild Resilience 🌱
Most people think trauma recovery is just about “waiting it out.” But anyone who’s lived through it...
Why Platform Teams Are Burning Out: How MyCoCo Escaped the Developer Experience Trap
When platform teams become overloaded bottlenecks instead of enablers, the solution isn't more tooling—it's strategic constraints and clear boundaries that preserve team sanity while accelerating delivery.
The Dark Side of Grinding: Burnout, Balance, and Identity
🧠 What is happiness, really? Ask different people, get different answers. For some, it’s...
How Dopamine Detoxing Changed My Life
For years, I was caught in a cycle that many of us know too well. My days were consumed by endless...
The Silent Fire: My Journey Through Burnout
It started with a headache. Not just any headache—a crushing, relentless migraine that felt like...
The Work Will Never Love You Back, But People Might
Let’s be real for a second: You can give your job everything—your nights, your weekends, your mental...
Corporate Burnout: How the CIA Invented Your 9 to 5
What is HTML All The Things? HTML All The Things is a web development podcast and...
How to Identify and Heal Burnout from Work
How to avoid burnout by building healthy habits
How to Avoid Burnout While Managing Heavy Workloads
Introduction – The Hidden Cost of Overwork Pushing hard to hit deadlines and deliver...
Why I’m All In on Burnout Prevention and What I’m Building with DustOff Reset
I’ve been building something personal, experimental, and deeply needed: a system that helps people...
The Hidden Cost of AI in SRE: Why Automation Hasn’t Fixed Burnout
AI promised to eliminate toil in Site Reliability Engineering, but has it really reduced burnout? Let’s explore the hidden costs of automation in 2025.
🔥 Nobody Talks About the Mental Debt of Being a Developer
Let's be honest. We all talk about technical debt - bad code, rushed features, and spaghetti logic...
Ticket-Driven Development Is Not a Process. It's a Trap.
Somewhere along the way, “just pick up the next ticket” became the default dev workflow. And that’s...
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The Invisible Epidemic 😷: Facing the Silent Crisis of Burnout [with Sam Loeffler]
Original post: https://onboardedhq.substack.com/p/facing-the-silent-crisis-of-burnout Something we...
Thriving in Tech Without Burning Out
The tech industry moves at a relentless pace. It’s easy to get caught up in the hype, the deadlines,...
😩Burnout Lessons: What It Feels Like and How to Start Healing
Burnout doesn’t always look dramatic. Sometimes it feels like being tired all the time. Sometimes...
Why Most Developers Burn Out (And How I Learned to Avoid It)
Burnout isn't just about overwork — it's about emptiness. Here's how I nearly lost my spark — and...
Como o Agile Mata a Paixão do Programador
Daily às 9h: O Primeiro Golpe do Dia Você liga a câmera. Sorri de leve. O Scrum Master repete o...
3 reasons to quit coding
When i started my career in IT, everything seemed so promising. But pretty quickly, i got tired of...
Salvaging the Sacred: A Hymn for the Broken in an Age of Steel
The machine breathes. Its iron lungs draw in dreams and exhale ashes. In this industrial wasteland, we, the scarred, are rising—not as fuel for its engines, but as the architects of a new humanity.
Should You Quit Tech? A Reality Check for Burnt Out Devs
Let’s not sugarcoat it - tech is brutal right now. The layoffs haven’t stopped. Projects are being...
O Agile morreu de tanta agilidade!
Depois de 21 anos de chão em dev, ficou claro: Agile virou um teatro. O processo matou o produto....
The Developer’s Guide to Navigating Tech Burnout
What is Tech Burnout? As a developer, it’s easy to get caught in the rush of deadlines,...
Sleep Is the Last VPN That Still Works
We encrypt everything. We secure servers, rotate credentials, and sandbox threats. But we leave our...
The "Anchor Offer" Tactic
I used to be terrified of negotiating my salary. I remember getting an offer and that little voice...