What, because he prioritizes his hobbies like race matches? Or because he elects not to spend an entire day at an event?

Does an OSS maintainer not allowed to have a life?

If that's not burnout, then I don't know what is a burnout, apparently. I never even considered that.

One day, I arrived to the office, and stood in the hallway across our office door. I froze. I couldn't physically move. I stood there, unable to move, for 2.5 hours until someone passed by and saw me.

I'm sharing this story so that readers may have an idea of what severe burnout may look like. It's not that I didn't want to move - I couldn't, my brain didn't let me. I lost my ability to control my body at that point.

I hope that every potential customer will consider the culture he cultivates. We don't need this in tech.

The only thing that matters is political power, both for the hosting country subsidies as well as outside donations (Qatar massive donation that made Harvard president claim that a call to murder all Jews is ok is a great example).

I have no idea how to fix this at this point.

I just know that trust in academic institutions is very, very low. And justifiably so.

For example, L1 Visa, will require your company to employ at least 15 people in the US by the end of it. So you either start a company successful enough to hire at least 15 people, or you go home.

If you aspire to live in the US at the end of it, it's a hell of a motivator.

I'll just add - this beneficial system is largely being closed down due to illegal immigration in the US, which "fills" the caps in many places. It may be hurtful to the US long term.

Starting a war and losing it should have consequences.

They tried to genocide the Jews in 1948 and lost.

If there are no consequences for what they did - they'll just keep doing it until they'll be successful. Which, coincidentally, is exactly what Hamas said about Oct 7 - that they'll repeat it again and again.

Politics essentially botched their Gemini AI release. The politics are beyond harming the company.

Israel always allowed as much aid as needed. Hamas kept stealing it to create the crisis and have useful idiots say it's genocide.

Genocide is what the Palestinians attempted - killing civilians, burning babies, and raping teenage girls.

Losing a war you started isn't genocide.

But what you described is far more scary.

And this is obviously true for all jobs that hold power. Combine it with bribery that can come from actors like Russia, Qatar, or China - this is an issue that must be fixed now.

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When money had no "price" to it, it made absolute sense to borrow as much as possible from the future, and thus delaying profits for growth.

That's why we start seeing this world change now, rates are no longer 0 and money isn't free. You have to pay now, and so you have to have some cash flow now.

Why do you rush to attack?

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Their disregard for their employees is beyond shameful

What happens in Gaza is a justified war to prevent such attacks from occuring again.

Yeah, some moral high ground. Your comment tells more about you than about this conflict.