just kidding about B2B SaaS.

The thing I can't stand about the grindset freaks is that when they inevitably burn out, they'll act like they weren't doing something widely known to be unsustainable and immediately start churning out smug content about the humbling lessons they've learned in balance and vulnerability. Even once their brain and body is totally shot they can't stop grinding, every possible speck of life experience is fodder for the online presence. It comes from the same place as devs needing to have public GitHub contributions to get in the door, it is competitive out there and it's hard to find roles that don't need a mountain of evidence of your abilities. I've seen a ton of people I've known make themselves look like dumbasses though by twisting "I ignored all advice and grinded until I failed" into some insightful blog post about how they've uniquely learned some hard and unexpected lesson about the importance of stepping back. whose universities Martha Nussbaum memorably described as creating "docile engineers" with zero civic consciousness