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Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
10 hours agoNot everyone who keeps working after the workday ends is ambitious. Some people simply discovered that the transition from productivity to stillness requires passing through a stretch of feeling they've been avoiding for years, and the extra hour of work is cheaper than the ten minutes of silence. - Silicon Canals
Many work late to avoid confronting uncomfortable emotions, not just to be productive.
fromTechCrunch
3 hours agoHow vibe coding app Anything is rebuilding after getting booted from the App Store twice | TechCrunch
Dhruv Amin stated, 'We built a mobile app primarily to let our users who are building iOS apps preview their own app on their own device while developing it. [We] had no problems through December. Post December, we and everyone else in the category started getting our updates blocked.'
Apple
#rest
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
30 minutes agoThere's a type of person who only feels permission to rest when they're physically sick, and the illness isn't the problem. The problem is the invisible equation they absorbed decades ago that says rest must be earned through suffering and a healthy body has no valid claim to stillness. - Silicon Canals
Sickness is often the only socially acceptable reason for rest, revealing deep-rooted beliefs about productivity and morality.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 hours agoPsychology says the people who age most visibly aren't the ones with the hardest lives - they're the ones who never learned to put things down, who carried every disappointment and every grievance and every unfairness forward into the next decade, and the carrying shows, eventually, in ways that no amount of sleep or skincare has ever been shown to address - Silicon Canals
Chronic psychological stress and the inability to release emotional burdens accelerate aging and impact physical appearance.
fromTheregister
1 day agoOracle job cuts and AI spending could impact support
Oracle is aggressively expanding AI datacenter capacity to serve demand tied to customers and partners including OpenAI, xAI, Meta, Nvidia, and AMD. The deal for OpenAI alone is set to be worth about $300 billion over five years.
Java
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 hour agoThe person who thrives during a crisis and falls apart during ordinary weeks isn't broken. Their entire operating system was built for emergencies, and peace registers as a system error because they never learned what competence feels like without urgency underneath it. - Silicon Canals
Crisis-thrivers are often dysregulated, struggling with normalcy after emergencies, revealing a deeper issue with their nervous system's response to stress.
Mindfulness
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
8 hours agoHow to keep your career going in the midst of grief - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Grief can disrupt work, but maintaining structure and realistic expectations helps navigate both loss and professional responsibilities.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
5 hours agoPsychology says people who grew up in the 1960s and 70s don't handle hardship better than everyone else because they are stronger - they handle it better because they were never offered the alternative, and a person who was never offered the alternative develops a relationship with difficulty that people who were offered it spend their whole lives trying to build in a gym - Silicon Canals
Struggling is a norm for my generation because we never knew life could be comfortable.
#productivity
Productivity
fromFast Company
1 day agoThe productivity question AI forces us to ask
Productivity tools increase capabilities but also raise expectations, leading to a cycle of anxiety and an overwhelming pace of work.
#burnout
UX design
fromMedium
1 week agoDesigners: We are perpetuating our own burnout problem
Design and research roles experience the highest burnout rates in tech, driven by external pressures and internal frameworks that may not support well-being.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 day agoIs Believing You're Burned Out Burning You Out?
Burnout is often misdiagnosed and may be more preventable than perceived.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 week agoWhy So Many People Burn Out at Work
Burnout results from high demands, limited resources, and unmet psychological needs, not just workload alone.
Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoMost companies don't have a burnout problem. They have a system that rewards people who can't stop performing and then acts surprised when those people collapse, because the collapse was always part of the business model. - Silicon Canals
The most dedicated employees may be the most frightened, driven by a culture that rewards overwork and leads to burnout.
Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoMost companies don't have a burnout problem. They have a system that rewards people who can't stop performing and then acts surprised when those people collapse, because the collapse was always part of the business model. - Silicon Canals
The most dedicated employees may be the most frightened, driven by a culture that rewards overwork and leads to burnout.
Careers
fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 days agoI was laid off from Google last month. I still haven't told my parents and won't until I find a new job.
Layoffs can trigger practical concerns and emotional challenges, prompting individuals to focus on logistics and preparation for future job opportunities.
Remote teams
fromEntrepreneur
5 days agoThis Startup's Return-to-Office Mandate Failed - Now It's Paying Employees to Show Up: 'We Were Pulling Teeth'
Superhuman increased office attendance by offering wellness stipends for in-office work, replacing a failed return-to-office mandate with a voluntary program.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
18 hours agoI realized at 66 that the reason I'm always tired has nothing to do with sleep. I've been running an internal monitoring system since childhood that tracks other people's moods, and it never shuts off, not even when I'm alone. - Silicon Canals
Emotional exhaustion can stem from lifelong habits of managing others' emotional states, leading to fatigue that sleep cannot alleviate.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
3 days agoAI promises to free workers from grunt work, but psychologists say those mindless tasks are exactly what our brains need to recover | Fortune
Eliminating menial tasks with AI may reduce productivity by removing necessary breaks for mental bandwidth and problem-solving.
Tech industry
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoThe psychology behind why engineers burn out faster at companies that claim unlimited PTO - Silicon Canals
Unlimited paid time off paradoxically reduces actual time off taken due to decision paralysis and ambiguity, with engineers particularly vulnerable to taking fewer days than fixed-policy employees.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
1 month agoA Google engineer whose job is changing due to AI explains how she's learning without burning out
Google infrastructure engineers are continuously upskilling in AI tools as customer demand shifts toward AI adoption, requiring one to two hours weekly of training to maintain competency.
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago'AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it': A software engineer warns there's a mental cost to AI productivity gains
"We used to call it an engineer, now it is like a reviewer," Khare told Business Insider. "Every time it feels like you are a judge at an assembly line and that assembly line is never-ending, you just keep stamping those PRs." Khare wrote a lengthy essay titled "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it." In it, he wrote that AI fatigue is "the kind of exhaustion that no amount of tooling or workflow optimization could fix."
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromArs Technica
2 months ago10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents
AI coding agents rapidly generate prototypes but require skilled human refinement, orchestration, and integration, potentially increasing developers' workload despite boosting creativity.
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