invicticide @invicticide@mastodon.gamedev.place

MH, burnout

Related reading:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work

We've created chronic burnout conditions for an entire generation simply by denying them time to express their humanity, instead sacrificing that time to the altar of "hustle".

I don't have an answer, because there isn't one. At least, not one that's individually actionable. The only way to fix it is to fix the conditions that create it, and those conditions are ~gestures broadly at everything~

I recently described what I expect a normal day to look like: enough sleep, exercise, decent meals, work, hobby time, social time. And I realized that day is impossible: it's 32 hours long. And there's no time management strategy on Earth that can solve that math problem.

I'm really struggling with this idea that burnout is not an individual problem, but a systemic one; that when you're afflicted, you can't cure it, because it's not curable on an individual basis, at least not for our generation. But it feels true.

"The hard truth is that burnout is part and parcel of an economy that tries to extract as much labor from an employee as it can without taking responsibility for that person’s humanity."
https://elladawson.com/2019/11/18/there-is-no-cure-for-burnout/

I decide to try this new (to me) flavor of chips and I honestly cannot figure out what the flavor actually is

I am waiting for an important phone call and therefore time has slowed to a crawl 😬

I have so much anxiety today and only a fraction of it is actually justifiable and that fact in itself is further increasing my anxiety

So far I'm liking Linux just fine except the weird thing where there are like a dozen different ways of packaging and distributing applications and they all have different requirements to be installed and executed and go into totally different locations on the drive. 🤔

My Linux laptop is supposed to arrive tomorrow and I've been having dreams about it for days and that's weird, right?