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8 questions
Joel Gascoigne’s 2019 Buffer essay describes burnout arriving after the company looked stable, and a six-week break. It is one account. The questions are about load and the people beside you.
1.What hours did you work, and who absorbed the hours you did not count?
2.When did you last have a week that was not recovery from the company?
3.Which relationship is carrying a cost you have not named out loud?
4.What would break if you were away for two weeks?
5.What help have you refused because you were told founders push through?
6.What boundary would protect the work, not only your mood?
7.Who is allowed to tell you that you are past capacity?
8.What will you drop before you promise anything new?
My experience with burnout as a startup founder · Joel Gascoigne, Buffer
Gascoigne describes a six-week break in 2017 after layoffs and the departure of his cofounder and CTO, and writes that adrenaline had been hiding the cost. One founder’s account.