Advice That I Can't Get Out of My Head

Burnout

This X post by Emmett Shear (most famous for being CEO of Twitch) had a huge impact on how I think about burnout.

Emmett describes 3 main causes of burnout (paraphrased):

• Permanent On-call: Never having true time off, because work can always reach you (or in the case of very intense jobs, because the work never actually ends). I had always co

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Trusting Your Gut

My favorite advice about the role of feelings in decision-making is this short Quora post by Auren Hoffman (founder/CEO of LiveRamp). The concise summary of the advice is: “You should trust your gut to avoid things, but you should use data to decide to take action.”

the authors describe an experiment during Navy SEAL training where they swapped the leaders of their most successful and least successful teams. The surprising result of this experiment was that both teams excelled after the flip, because:

• The weak team now had a great leader who elevated their performance


• The strong team maintained a durable culture

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