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by Uchikoma
4893 days ago
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Downplaying burnout of mixing burnouts with boredom, or exhaustion gives the wrong impression. Most people that think they had some kind of burnout if they are not motivated or exhausted is plain wrong. If you had serious depression going with your exhaustion at least, you might have had burn out. The trivialization of burnout is damaging to the victims of burnout. |
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Burnout a temporary state (by nature) brought on by legitimate causes.
If it was depression, then that is a separate issue with plenty of it's own clinical treatments and reasoning.
You can't deal with burnout by suppressing everyone who brings it up.
It has to be accepted. He has to accept that there are fans of Textmate who are disappointed while being able to appreciate that he accomplished something really great regardless.
He accepted he can't finish the project and open sourced it, which was also a very nice gesture and made the fans quite happy.
There will always be people who are ignorant to the effects of burnout and try to make fun of failed projects. But that doesn't mean it has to be damaging to the project creators.