I didn't say his sabbatical is unwarranted; he can spend his life however he pleases. I simply said that I think it's extremely tone deaf and sneeringly privile

I didn't say his sabbatical is unwarranted; he can spend his life however he pleases. I simply said that I think it's extremely tone deaf and sneeringly privileged for Jason to describe his current state as "burnt out." This is a very strong term referring to a state of extreme mental anguish induced by an unreasonable and inescapable level of overwork that applies more to people forced to work 60+ hour weeks at minimum wage than to people whose livelihood is posting cool links a handful of times a week. As I said in another post, it would be equally tone deaf for a millionaire to unironically describe themselves as being "impoverished" due to a small cut in their yearly bonus or an underperforming investment. If Jason simply wrote that he's sick of maintaining his blog and wants to try something new, that would be perfectly fine. >I imagine it takes a huge amount of work and thought to successfully curate The Whole Internet into something that people actually want to read for 24 years. I disagree. Plenty of prolific Reddit and Hacker News posters do the same thing in their spare time. >Anecdotally, whenever Jason has a guest writer come on his blog, I can tell before I even read the by-line. It's just not the same quality. Isn't that because they usually post more long-form original content (e.g. https://kottke.org/tag/Tim%20Carmody https://kottke.org/tag/Tim%20Carmody) than cool links?