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("quiet", though in your defense I proceeded to make the same typo myself just now)

I don't know if this is as big a change as you think it is. There is no huge world-changing technology that just got released. We already had phones and the internet.

I'm experiencing burnout too, but when I look around, I have trouble seeing what actually changed in my life. I do effectively the same job I did before, in much the same way; my coworkers now exist in a rectangle on my screen labeled "Zoom" but otherwise behave as before. I have trouble believing that's enough to cause a mass epidemic of burnout.

I have considered the possibility that I happened to burn out for unrelated reasons at the same time all the extroverts of the world burned out because Zoom is actually that much worse for them, but I have no idea how to test or measure that.