Hey!

Welcome back to another week of musings.

I hope you had a great weekend and managed to find some time to rest! We’ve spent some time watching the World Cup games and finding new places to eat.

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Things I enjoyed in the past week

• TypeScript 7.0, latest release, I always found it curious how tooling went to Rust or Go, even in other runtimes like Node.js
• TBM 430: Incubate, Compound, Refinance, Liquidate, I liked the idea of this post, how AI is changing the nature of “software assets”, and how easy it becomes to work towards the “wrong way”.
• Utah Roadtrip on Film: my “algorithm” keeps showing me new YouTubers (or low subscriber count?), and this video was pretty good. I’ve wanted to go to Zion National Park for so long. Maybe one day I’ll do the road trip.

I think I’ve mentioned it a few times in the past week, but I was knee-deep in an incident that took out a few weeks (maybe a couple of months) to solve.

I felt on the verge of burning out from the daily grind, which made me take stock of where I was and set some boundaries. I stopped going for my daily walks or journaling. It’s very easy for me to fall into the trap of hyper-focusing on a problem and letting the rest fall into the background.

The thing about getting to that point of tunnel vision is that you don’t notice it unless you’re experiencing health side effects like back pain or vision problems. At the beginning, you notice not doing your daily routine, like walking or eating at regular hours, but after a few days of not doing it, you accept it as the “new normal”.

It becomes harder to resume your previous habits, or sometimes you don’t have any energy to start them. You would rather just sit and stare at the wall or sleep whenever there’s any “free time”.

So even getting back to your routine (or reset, as YouTubers call it now) requires empathy with ourselves and patience to start building the habits again. Go back to the walks, but start just around the block, read only a page, or have a lighter read (hello, manga!).

Maybe you don’t struggle as much as I do with tunnel vision; some people have very strong boundaries, which I respect, and bigger responsibilities in life than I do, which makes them focus on those rather than work.

If anything, turn off that computer; don’t check Slack or email. Your future self will feel better by being healthy, not by working more hours.

Your turn!

In any case, let me know whether you have been burned out. How do you avoid burning out? Let me know by replying to this email!

Happy coding!