Burnout, Rust, and the Feruchemy Problem
Burnout is weird. You know you need rest, but rest feels impossible when your brain won't stop running.
This week, I stopped pretending productivity was the cure. I let myself just exist. Morning coffee with my cat watching birds, bonding with a borrowed cat, falling down a TUI rabbit hole (shoutout to bookokrat and noctavox).
The thing that clicked: I've been thinking about Mistborn, and Feruchemy a lot lately. You can only tap what you've actually stored. You can't pull the rest you never gave yourself. Burnout isn't a motivation problem; it's an empty metalmind.
So I'm making changes. Going all-in on Rust. Swapping GUIs for CLI's. Being intentional instead of just busy. And I'm trying to remember; Sometimes the real win is just making space to exist.
What does rest actually look like for you
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