8. Creak
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"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons... So how should I presume?"
Hello, Things are feeling forced in the last stretch of work before the holiday. Several final projects left me drained, more in the mood for silent circumspection than screen-staring. Burnout isn’t quite the right word, but it’s close. ‘I want to take a long break but I need to keep pushing’ and ‘I’m running on the reserves of my motivation’. I just saw a friend’s post asking about how to structure her life so she can live ambitiously, but without the possibility of burnout. I was reminded of a prior time where I listened keenly to podcasts about productivity, obsessed about ‘optimizing’…
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