> “It's pretty simple: you can't work at an insane pace forever, and eventually your subconscious will rebel and stop working with you.” I think there are vers

> “It's pretty simple: you can't work at an insane pace forever, and eventually your subconscious will rebel and stop working with you.” I think there are versions of this where the issue is not pace or volume of work, but rather “meaning” or greater societal impact. I used to work at a place that gathers a ton of location data on its users, and then packages it into data products & advertising products. It wasn’t the pace of work that burnt me out there, but instead the lack of meaningful impact. Even a light workload at such a place was already heavy enough to create burnout. Just as you need rest from volume of work, you also need rest from work that exploits others or work that does not appear to have a constructive purpose.