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Building a culture to minimize burn-out

• rektide 3y ago
  > Daniel H. Pink’s book Drive illustrates autonomy, mastery, and purpose as the key drivers of motivation. From my observations, most organizations are lucky if they can achieve two of these. A sad number of companies manifest none as they are zombies... Still a good framework. I have my Pink-doubts, but this continues to be a pretty solid breakdown in my mind. People light up when I quickly describe it. And yeah, I think it's absolutely the key to avoiding burn out. Orgs have their own priorities which come down, and trying to fight to get the really important shit you know & care about recognized & pushed up & dealt with is like the impossible pushing the boulder up the hill, only usually there's no signs the boulder is even moving. I heard relatively recently via HN "respect is the currency of developers." Recent intellectual acquisition for me, but it's resounded & dovetails to this topic. There are hard interesting problems everywhere, but most of the people with power can't actually appreciate or understand a vast majority of the situations or potentials. Somehow we still have to work together.