I accidentally wrote the emotional finale to my little “stop optimizing the joy out of everything” trilogy. It contains burnout, Stockholm, outsourced identity, grindset brainworms, a wood chipper with OKRs, a future electric farm truck and, naturally, a goat named Ralf. Anyway, please enjoy my carefully formatted psychological damage: https://augustini.wtf/fieldnotes/i-was-grinding-myself-down/ #Burnout #MentalHealth #Writing #Tech #SoftwareEngineering #Career #Queer #Trans #PersonalBlog #FieldNotes