We’re Good At Scaling Stress

Burnt to a crisp.

I’ve written a bunch about workplace stress and burnout. It’s a hard topic to keep writing about, because it doesn’t seem to improve that much and generally bosses do not care about it so long as tasks are being hit. I sometimes think the worst thing Bezos did for modern capitalism — and that’s a decent-sized list — is that he kept preaching “Turnover is natural, don’t worry about it.” That led to a lot of MBA guys thinking, “Eh, this peon will leave eventually. I’ll burn him or her to a crisp while he or she is here.” Plus: we’ve known for about 40 years that affluent people literally see others differently, but we don’t say that out loud enough.

Executives do not give a flying fuck about “burnout.”

I get a lot of different newsletters in the AM. This morning, I got a few as well. From Planet Money, you have this section:

Which means that we’re only going to be more stressed in the coming year. Why? Because we’re almost certainly headed into a recession. The Conference Board, a non-profit business…