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Reaching startup burnout.
4 min readApr 4, 2021
Two years ago, I left Australia to immerse myself in the Silicon Valley tech space. But I have burned out.
I ended up with anxiety and physically ill from all of the information and hustle expectations that I have imposed on myself. These were the contributing factors:
- Cognitive overload
- Attachment to my tech identity
- Aim to become a productivity god
Edit: Wrote this in March 2021 and never published it. Am very well and rested now.
Cognitive Overload
This is the list of all the social and media resources I have been regularly consuming:
- Discord and Slack groups
- Clubhouse rooms
- TeamBlind threads
- Indiehackers threads
- Medium articles
- TechCrunch
- A lot of SF /VC / Growth Twitter.
- Podcasts
- Blinklists
- Substack Newsletters
Writing that list and creating the infographic makes me realize how overkill I have loading my brain with ‘knowledge’. I learned a lot from consuming all of this. From how startups in consumer and crypto spaces grow, how much software engineers…
