Burnout

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There's a great piece that folks have been talking about this week "How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation." 

I'm one of the generation-bridge people - MilleniX perhaps? Too young to really be Gen X, and too old to be a true Millennial.  In any case, I find myself resonating with quite a bit of what the author articulated. I'm grateful I have a spouse to split the mundane duties with that sometimes feel overwhelming, precisely because of how simple they are. And I realize that makes me a very fortunate person.

Maintaining this daily blog is likely to also suffer the fate of my general feeling of being overwhelmed. I'm going to try to make it to the end of January, but I expect the length and quality of my posts will suffer - c'est la vie.

The good news is that my commitment to coding every day is going strong. It's definitely a different skillset than writing. And one key aspect is that no one else sees the progress I make on any given day, unlike a daily blog. I used to maintain a private blog, maybe that's the trick? Maintain a writing practice with the goal of becoming a better writer and only publish pieces that are worth sharing? 

I'll keep chewing on it all and in the meantime, I'll probably pivot to sharing more recommendations of things I've watched, read, or listened to.