
…cker News comments section while doing research for this article. One guy accurately described that “burnout is caused when you repeatedly make large amounts of sacrifice and or effort into high-risk problems that fail. It’s the result of a negative prediction error in the nucleus accumbens. You effectively condition your brain to associate work with failure.”. This rings so true to me. Not a day goes by without failures when creating software.
sibly aggressive in growing key objectives with a talented group of people… often wondered how the companies I admired knew what direction to go — and it became apparent that the trick was being almost irresponsibly aggressive in growing key objectives with a talented group of people.