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Don't end up a jaded burnt out 40 year old engineer.

I get it, youre burnt out, but theres so much more we can do in this space. We can all make our marks, make some money, and change peoples lives.'

And how burnt out he is, and how he's leaving to pursue "other dreams". And people will congratulate him.

You are roughly infinitely more useful to your startup when you are well rested than when you are burnt out. Wasting time helps a lot with that.

It sounds like you got burnt out. When you "code until the sun comes up" you neglect basic human necessities like sleep and human contact.

Then I finally realized how many times I've burnt out in my life, and I became much better into avoiding it. Which is really hard to do.

The first question I need to put out there is: are you bored or simply burnt out? This can often masquerade as an inability to concentrate.

Where is the speech from the burnt out entrepreneur who lost all their savings... They might have a little bit different perspective.

"This is a Golden Sunrise carrot, in burnt orange with off-green foliage. Heritage.

If you maintain a sense of wonder and delight every time you get something new working, you will probably never get burnt out. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Reading the bit you excerpted didn't sound too bad at first - talking frankly about how someone burnt out is a pretty realistic view. Animation burns a lot of people out.

He continued to work excessive hours until he completely burnt out. It was only when he met someone else that he learnt to take a step back and appreciate and enjoy what he had created.

I wasn't in a position to have her live with me, and had been dealing with her illness for about 30 years and was, quite frankly, so frustrated and burnt out that I had given up. I had no resources to work with, what the hell was I to do?

Places of business burnt down because they the owners didn't have "approval" from the right people. Council officials just blatantly asking for money to make something happen.

You close it with that ber-readable burnt-orange-on-charcoal link "Ok, enough already. Hide the footer."

I went the opposite direction, burnt out by startups and went to a BigCo. I have never been at a startup where you could remotely set strict boundaries on work. You have to be available at all times to deal with whatever crisis is happening.

One press of a button and the video was burnt to a DVD for the police officers to take back as evidence. In the end the class mate was trying to buy Playstation 3s to be able to sell, so she could pay off the fines that she received for committing identity theft when she was a minor...

I think frankly there's a lot of techies I know who are so burnt out they don't even remember what it feels like not to be burnt out. There's a lot of people who could really do with putting every electronic device in a box for 6 months and just breathing fresh air, thinking new thoughts, and doing things in the "real" world for a while.

None of this would've happened if people had just heroically fallen on their own sword and burnt out doing work nobody cared about. Sometimes it takes highly visible consequences before people with decision-making power realize there's a problem and start correcting it.

Fortunately the burnt cork still works as an insulator, it's black on the outside and therefore can only be used as insulators in buildings. Amazingly, because cork it's such a great insulator burned cork trees survive the fires and develop very easily.

It creates an exploitative environment akin to some of the bad stories you hear in the gaming industry, where young engineers are often taken advantage and burnt out the industry.

For Hacker News, the far more important thing to point out is that no matter what block cipher you use, you are never going to get burnt by research like this, but you are almost certain to be completely boned by implementation errors.