Hacking the Wetware 2 - Antipatterns (Burn Out & The Ego Trap)
Of Burn Out And Boiled Frogs
I can’t speak for everyone, but as for my own experience, burn out can be tough to self diagnose because it happens slowly, by degrees.
Health
Hacking the Wetware
Working for Amazon has been a revelation to me in ways large and small.
One of the biggest by far has been coming to the understanding that career growth was not in fact laying in wait around the next corner if only I could master the latest technology trend. There are baseline skills that can either accelerate or retard your growth in profound ways, and many of them reduce down to changing the way you think in or react to various situations. Let’s walk through a few of them.
Genes, lifestyle, and longevity
So I spent the weekend with my lovely wife and her family celebrating…
her Nanna’s 90th birthday. She had another uncle present who is 94 years old and seems more spry and active than some thirty somethings I know.
This led me to reflect a little bit on the fact that nobody in my family lives into their nineties, and damn few live into their eighties (Or have thus far).