Feeling burned out? You’re not the only one (Ep. 440)
Friend of the show Jon Chan, Stack Overflow’s Director of Engineering, Public Platform, joins the home team to talk about burnout: what it is, how to prevent it, and how to recover. They also cover how managers can prevent burnout among their teams, the importance of building a support system for yourself, and the restorative power of going outside and taking a walk.
Episode notes:
Check out a manager’s toolkit for preventing burnout put together by Gitlab
Cassidy once asked Stephen Colbert for his favorite website. His answer may surprise you.
Today in tech recs: Pokémon GO (for extra motivation to get outside) and the Apple Watch activity tracker (to track activity and remind you to move around). Jon recommends that you not get a treadmill desk.
Today’s Lifeboat badge goes to user JLRishe for their answer to Error “TypeError: $(…).children is not a function”.
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Tags: burnout, the stack overflow podcast
2 Comments
The managers say “It will be fine…” ya sure that is so funny. The reason why we “Engineers” burn out is because of your crazy time lines where all you guys do is talk and we have to actually I don’t know – WORK???
As we go through management burnouts for those of us that are exhausted from listening to others in the repetitive pattern, being meeting tones, let’s come together on this. Burnouts suck! We must go through them in order to grow! How many it takes until the crack breaks the whip is what is key to understanding when you need a vacation!
Furthermore, tying this in with other groups of team members you may have whether it is one person, two persons, or three clusters of six-hundred people, you may find that using audible tunes and group self-body motions will help people. They must be in a comfortable setting so further environmental setup from that point is on the Lead themself.
Code Away!