I’ve given several talks about burnout in the last five years, in the context of open source software maintenance, and I feel like I should do another one, but I’m not sure anybody wants to hear it. It’s not very inspirational. It’s about what happened to me when the weight of burnout became too great to keep carrying along, and then too much to bear. As @annehelen’s excellent essay for Buzzfeed says (buzzfeednews.com/article/annehe…), there’s no quick fix for burnout.