Now that my laptop and desktop are both repaired (for now!) I decided that I could do a bit of decorating in the style of mashing a ton of stickers close together that all have some meaning to me.
One of the stickers says, “Rest is Productive”. I’ve been thinking a lot about burnout this week (check out the first article share), and why it is so easy to treat any downtime as another place where we should fit in more tasks, more opportunities, more areas of improvement.
I’ve been doing a lot more rest lately. Some of it by my own choice, some of it with a feeling of being forced into it. It hasn’t always felt restful, but it has been better than what used to feel like a frantic pace that led to burnout in the first place.
How have you been handling burnout? I want to know what you do for rest, what’s worked for you, or what you wish that you could do. If I get a few responses and you indicate that you’re fine with sharing them, I’ll try compiling something together for next week.
Or if you have cool stickers to share, I want to see those too!
I can’t wait to use this for presentations at conferences in person
In situations of ever-tightening austerity, dispossession, and deprivation, we cultivate methods of collective survival that aren’t just guided by an imaginary of abundance but bring such abundance to bear in the present.
…It is not just a problem of long hours, emotionally extractive labor, underpayment, and underappreciation—though it is, of course, most of those things. It is experiencing all of this in the absence of wages and having to engage in this kind of unwaged labor to build an ever-so-slightly habitable world for trans folks.
This is a short book, available for free online. It’s a bit more academic than I prefer for a shareable piece, but there are a lot of great ideas in here.
I want to highlight chapter two specifically, which concerns burnout. We’ve all been feeling it to some extent, and recognizing it is the first step to acting on it.
As Betteridge’s law of headlines states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” Please spare me all of the reasons why it’s actually fine and good.
Every Jennifer Daniel newsletter is worth sharing. One of the 37 new emoji that your devices are getting this week is an update that puts Apple’s giggle emoji in line with other platforms by adding a shocked face emoji.
When I moved away from Gmail I deleted over 99% of my messages after filtering and reviewing them. We really will never need the majority of things that we archive and record ever again.
I wasn’t really surprised with the info about child abuse and avoiding CPS and affirming therapists/doctors in communities advocating for conversion therapy. I was somehow surprised by the use of autism as a weapon against non-cishet children.
spoiler: pharmaceutical companies making billions off of public funded R&D, production, and distribution while not being forced to properly supply the world with vaccines.
I have been in the world of self-help addiction where I focus more on how to improve than actually improving. I think the closest that I got to any idolizing in that world was Tim Ferriss, and even then I felt that our experiences were so radically different that I couldn’t assume that he’d be a guide for my life.
If you made it this far, why not share this newsletter with a friend? Or share with me some of the things that you found that you liked this week. Either way, I’m thrilled!
