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“Burnout” is a term of the moment. What’s really happening?

Inside the various perspectives on “burning out.”

Ted Bauer
21 min readOct 9, 2022

The “Big Issues” Series

Masculinity

Fertility and infertility

Empathy

Life’s bullshit

Failure

Sexuality

Friendship

Being performative

Convenience

Gender and the workplace

Productivity

Purpose

Being busy

Burnout

Onboarding

How does “woke” relate to “work?”

First of all: Don’t work as much. Honestly.

Here’s a new piece on NPR about overwork, with the headline claiming that overwork kills 745,000+ people per year. I’d believe that, and I know there are some longitudinal studies about the health impacts of command and control management, and none of them are very pleasant. Over at Numlock News, where I found the NPR piece…

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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