I get asked a lot about avoiding burnout, which is an incredibly tough question to answer because I think a lot of other issues get attributed to burnout. It seems people think a lack of motivation to start something == burn out, which isn't always the case. For me, it's more about the discipline to start something I don't want to. Once I start the task, I have plenty of motivation to keep working but starting is the hard thing.
A non-tech parallel is playing sports growing up. There were countless times when I did not want to wake up at 5 am to go to practice before school started. Heck, even on game day I remember not wanting to go out. However, I knew no matter once I was out the motivation would come to finish practice/game because I enjoyed it. The discipline (and peer pressure) to get to where I needed to be, carried me to the point where motivation could take over.
In tech, especially post-covid there's very little peer pressure to start on tasks. It can be tough to start coding, recording, or the toughest hitting to "go live" button to stream. Especially, when there's so much instant gratification out there (Discord, Twitter, Video Games, etc). The bar for instant gratification is constantly being moved which makes it tougher, for example, we don't even have to spend a few seconds to unlock our phone anymore. It's crazy but those few seconds typing in a pass-code sometimes sway people away from doing things.
So if you think you are "burned out" because you aren't producing the results you think you should. Try these three things first:
1. Establish some type of routine/ritual you do before you work. The best thing you can probably do is some type of low-impact aerobic exercise (bike, rower, elliptical) for 20-30 minutes. This will help your health, wake you up, and give you time to think before starting any activity. However, if this doesn't work for you it can be as simple as taking a vitamin or something and saying once I take this I am going to start a task.
2. At the end of your "productive" day (ex: quitting time). Take 10-15 minutes to write down your wins for the day, I prefer physically writing them down because you spend more time on the positives. Don't write down anything negative, spend this time on positivity. Not only will it help you become a more positive person but also lets you privately know what you can accomplish. There are plenty of times when I realize I didn't flip a page a single time in the week and catch myself before my discipline to start things slips.
3. Put your phone on DND Mode. If you require notifications from someone allow them, but mute everything else. Even work emails. For me, it is very easy to be focused on something, to have my phone go off and I don't know if it's important or not so I look at it. 9 times out of 10 it's not important but then I look at other things and my productivity is killed. The 5 seconds it took me to see the notification ends up easily costing me 15-30 minutes and that's if I even return to the task.
Hopefully, this helps someone out there.
Hola amigos! hace unas semanas me llegó una polera del #RedTeamVillage y la queremos sortear junto a @cntr0llz por lo que preparamos un reto y el primero que lo resuelva enviándome la flag por DM se la lleva! <hint>https://t.co/70Iyivct3k</hint> (reto solo para gente de 🇨🇱)
I remember that in 2017 in BlackHat I went to ask Kevin for a photo and he was very kind with me, my condolences to his family and those closest to him 😭
Acabo de vivirlo. Me comprometieron mi cuenta de paypal. De alguna manera se están saltando el 2FA .
Sospecho que #tenpo tiene un insider que se esta pasando de listo, abusando de algunos privilegios.
pd: Eliminar cualquier integracion: tenpo<->paypal
Muy buenas @MovistarEmCL.
Hace ya meses que realizamos el reclamo de la linea doble que estaban cobrando en una misma dirección, el problema aún no lo han solucionado, siguen cobrando dos cuentas... y ahora encima un servicio de McAfee que mi madre jamás ha contratado. @SERNAC