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by graderjs 1554 days ago
Exactly. I talked about this in my 22120 interview[0] a couple years ago. You have to learn to say no. Self-management taking care of yourself and setting boundaries, protecting your space to ensure you can continue making contribution on something you care about. People can be so demanding you have to push back. Use the block feature on GitHub if they're real trouble. I don't have a ton of experience but in my experience of this somehow by pushing back and setting boundaries and saying no it seems you change the expectation or culture and it's a persistent thing. Then the "little community" you have seems to behave better.

[0]: https://console.substack.com/p/console-28?utm_source=url