From the article: > I’m finding that “always on” tendency to be a > self-perpetuating feedback loop: the more everyone’s > hanging out, the more conversa

From the article: > I’m finding that “always on” tendency to be a > self-perpetuating feedback loop: the more everyone’s > hanging out, the more conversations take place. The more > conversations, the more everyone’s expected to > participate. Lather, rinse, repeat. and > I belong to roughly 10 different Slack teams. People are > very used to messaging me (directly or publicly) whether > I’m online or not, so there’s a heavy social expectation > for me to keep those conversational plates spinning on > an ongoing basis, even if I’m signed out of all your > clients. Even when the interactions only take place at work, this reads like an engineer overwhelmed with responsibility and feeling like they can't step away. The whole 'break-up' metaphor is a classic burnout pattern too.