What Charity Majors thinks about motivation

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab. Co-author of "Database Reliability Engineering" and "Observability Engineering". Writes at charity.wtf about on-call, hierarchy, hiring and the engineer/manager pendulum.

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1. 23 Sept 2022

   Our readingBurnout comes from not caring and from not feeling needed, not from working the hardest.

   Their wordsThe times I have come closest to burnout or flaming out have never been when I was working the hardest, but when I cared the least.

   ↗The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)charity.wtf 2nd of 3 in this piece