Until it BSODed while opening my photo editor earlier today1, my home PC had over two months of uptime — pretty alright for a Windows 102 box! This is not atypical for me: while browsers are pretty good at keeping my tabs indefinitely these days, my text editors persist unsaved changes automatically, and seemingly every other application autosaves every keystroke3, I generally prefer to just put my computer to sleep at the end of the day and have it resume to the exact place I had left off.
Saving (or losing) work isn't even the main issue here; it's primarily persistence of mental state — like a CPU lifting a frame off the stack to reveal a previous one, resuming the computer also allows me to resume the frame of mind I was in when I last used it, catapulting me into the flow of wherever I was up to before.
Posts for: #burnout
Burnout comes not from working hard, or even working hard without reward — but from being worked hard without hope of improvement.
These conditions do not come about by accident — they are a product of company culture, planning, and management techniques.
So, if I were a manager with an employee I wanted to quit, here's what I would do: