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Exhaustion is Not Your Fate

This post is reprinted with permission from Burnout Culture. Please visit and subscribe!A conversation with one of my favorite thinkers: cultural historian & exhaustion coach Anna SchaffnerWhen I was doing research for The End of Burnout, I knew I needed to read Exhaustion: A History by Anna Katharina Schaffner to understand better burnout’s prehistory. The book turned out to be so much more than…

Quit Your Day Job (On Hannah Gadsby, Worker)

“Don’t quit your day job” is the extremely clever advice hecklers yell at comedians they judge to be not very funny. (As if 99% of performers – or writers or other artists – could ever afford not to have day jobs.) Australian standup comic Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix special “Nanette” isn’t especially funny, but that’s part of its point. In the middle of the special, she…