Apr 15 · 3 min read · The On-Call Burnout Epidemic I watched three senior SREs leave our team in six months. Exit interviews all said the same thing: on-call was unsustainable. We were spending $500K+ recruiting replacements for a problem that could have been fixed with $...
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Apr 15 · 3 min read · The On-Call Burnout Epidemic I watched three senior SREs leave our team in six months. Exit interviews all said the same thing: on-call was unsustainable. We were spending $500K+ recruiting replacements for a problem that could have been fixed with $...
Join discussionApr 15 · 3 min read · The On-Call Burnout Epidemic I watched three senior SREs leave our team in six months. Exit interviews all said the same thing: on-call was unsustainable. We were spending $500K+ recruiting replacements for a problem that could have been fixed with $...
Join discussionMar 18 · 7 min read · I was sitting in my home office on a Tuesday afternoon with a blank editor open and nothing in my head. Not nothing as in "I'm stuck on a hard problem." Nothing as in the well was dry. The thing that used to make me lean forward at my desk, the puzzl...
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Feb 14 · 3 min read · You've probably heard that working too many hours causes burnout. Turns out that's not the real problem anymore. New research from 2026 shows cognitive strain has replaced workload as the primary driver of burnout. It's not how many hours you work. I...
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Feb 9 · 4 min read · If you’re constantly exhausted, unfocused, and emotionally flat, the most common explanation is burnout. Long hours. Endless meetings. Mental overload. But here’s the uncomfortable truth:not all exhaustion is burnout—and mislabeling depression as bur...
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Feb 6 · 2 min read · The new burnout research for 2026 just dropped. And it's not what you'd expect. For the first time ever, mental fatigue and cognitive strain beat workload volume as the leading cause of burnout. Not too many tasks. Not long hours. Mental exhaustion. ...
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