Yes, there's plenty of burnout & low-grade depression/ennui, and yes, it's especially overrepresented in a place like HN that offers an endless variety of bite-

Yes, there's plenty of burnout & low-grade depression/ennui, and yes, it's especially overrepresented in a place like HN that offers an endless variety of bite-sized distractions. But no, it's not everyone. Get outside. Exercise. Do activities that require focus for tens-of-minutes or hours, rather than batches-of-seconds or minutes. Look away from things you have no direct control over, no matter how much (synthetic) social-proof that some manipulative media presents suggesting "everyone" or "most people" or "good people" or "with-it people" obsess over such events. The person who is most sullen over "the world" is not at all the most virtuous, even though large assemblages of depressive people tend to unconsciously advance that idea, and wind up in a destructive competition over who is most (fake-)caring.