Burnout Is Not a Personal Failure — It’s a Systems Signal
Burnout is often framed as a personal weakness or a failure to manage stress. In reality, burnout is a systems-level signal—especially among builders, writers, and conscientious people. This essay argues that burnout is not caused by doing too much, but by being forced to operate inside systems that extract meaning, punish integrity, and reward surface-level performance over truth. ---
