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You are not a software engineer: how I protect myself from burnout

Someone asked me at the end of a talk recently whether I'd ever burnt out. I said no. I put it down to still loving the work, and to communicating pressure rather than absorbing it, and we moved on to…

  • Speaker avoided burnout through passion and communication
  • Distinguished choices from circumstances in preventing burnout
  • Applied Stoic philosophy and positive thinking to manage work

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