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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Preventing and Dealing with Burnout in Web Development

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Js, Technology, Css, Html5, Tech News, Webdevelopment, News, Javascript, Html

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Scott and Wes Chat about burnout!

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Show Notes

01:50

  • What is burnout?
  • Losing Enthusiasm for web development
  • That Hustle

7:00

  • Why is being burnt out bad?
  • Putting off hobbies

12:30

  • How do you prevent burnout?
  • Farming out Work
  • Automating content
  • Busy work

18:00

  • Aggressively turn down meetings
  • Work to cut out busy work
  • Locus on Control
  • Managing Email and Notifications
  • Scrubbing Plates

24:00

  • Health and Nutrition
  • Sleep

27:00

  • Motivation
  • What to do when you just don't like the work you are working on
  • Small Wins
  • Learning new Things
  • Getting a new job
  • Taking Courses
  • Keeping Up With The Codeashians

37:00

  • Being overworked at work
  • Overtime

41:00

  • So you've burnt out, what do you do?
  • How do you reignite the spark?
  • Taking a day off
  • Delegating GitHub
  • Online chat with other developers

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.0

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss.

0:10.6

Welcome to Syntax. In this episode we're going to be talking about something that is always an important topic.

0:17.0

Something that we cannot talk about enough is burnout.

0:21.0

It's something that is extremely prevalent in our industry right now and

0:24.8

and as just everything grows and progresses it's really easy to get burnt out.

0:29.7

With me as always is West Boss.

0:35.0

Hello everybody, hopefully you're doing well.

0:38.0

Excited to talk about this topic.

0:40.0

I think it's, I don't know, I think there's a lot of a lot of people that are suffering for

0:45.0

burnout on the the verge of burnout kind of feel like this this nagging feeling

0:49.5

every now and then so I'm I've definitely felt it myself quite a bit so I think it's something

0:57.2

that's neat to talk about and talk about how you can stop it from happening and

1:01.7

and just have a bit of more of a balanced work life as you learn right?

1:07.3

Yeah absolutely and especially with those of us who are either working well I guess anybody is susceptible to

1:13.9

burn out but those of you are you know you're in the hustle lifestyle of the

1:18.1

startup world or something like that it's so incredibly prevalent this episode is sponsored by Fresh Books, which is

1:24.7

Cloud Accounting Software, and Fluent, which is an awesome conference in San Jose.

1:30.3

Beautiful. So how we're gonna tackle tackle this is we're going to talk about what it is real quick if you're not totally sure what causes it and then we're going to to dive into how you can sort of get around it, how you can avoid it, how you can fix it,

1:46.6

if you're sort of leaning that way and hopefully give you a couple tips to stay away from it because I honestly think like that my

1:56.0

competitive advantage in this industry is having mostly figured out I don't know I

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