burnout

“The one that I see the most is, is a, like, adaptability goes down really fast. And this is more me noticing, like, I, I've managed a lot of people and coached a lot of people, and so, like, when I see that from people that I'm working with, I, like, I usually…”

“I personally now can pretty cleanly like tell the difference between exhaustion and depression and It tends to tie to my broader motivations, not just my motivation to work, right? So like, the, like, when I'm exhausted, I will, I'll still show up to work, I'l…”

“And so I actually think velocity is a way to potentially avoid burnout. I'm not asking people to work, you know, unless hours a week, I'm asking people to get out of their own way and to focus on, on what truly matters, which is building great products for our…”

“The biggest risk to content creation of any sort is quitting soon because you get burned out. The biggest risk is not that you grow too slow initially.”

“Yeah, so I have this idea that I call the feather brick dump truck phenomenon, and basically what that means is when we are showing early signs of burnout, our body will give us feedback, usually in subtle ways in the beginning. So the feather might be waking …”

“There was a research report that I did a couple of years ago where we interviewed these leaders And they'd all experienced burnout of some degree. And we said, if you were to estimate like how much this costs your startup or business, what would you say? And t…”

“The more homogenous your life and career and job is, the faster you're gonna burn out.”

“Especially for product people who are you know, so much of their self identity is wrapped up in having the answers, being competent, getting things done. And so many of them have been people who have been really good at that for most of their careers, which is…”

“When it comes to significant burnout, burnout, that's higher than moderate. We've gone up from 44.7% in 2025 to 54.7% in 2026. So burnout is surging. More than half of our sample are feeling significantly burnt out at this point.”

“As we ship faster than ever, as we move from shipping, you know, a couple of PRs a day to 30 PRs a day, or just doing so much more in some ways that might be fun, but we are burning out more than we did before. And we're not working any less hard clearly, righ…”

“One thing we saw people who feel amplified and energized reporting is that they actually went deep on specific tasks and specific jobs to be done rather than trying to be the generalist who does everything. I think it's the people who try to be Or lean too muc…”

“If we look just at burnout specifically, then you can see very clearly here that burnout climbs in very significant ways. In between working for a small one to 10 person startup and working for a 5000 or 10,000 person enterprise company.”