DRAB is a good mnemonic, it pinpoints negative actions which enable workplaces to maintain business as usual. Acts of denial, assumption and burial work especially well together, as managers try to focus on the positives, or what can be retrieved from the fallout, even with the best of intentions.
28.02.2026 23:16 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you!
Yes, while I have heard some genuine horror stories, it’s also easy to see how some of these responses can emerge from good intentions. That’s why people need to understand burnout instead of simply hoping that generally well-intentioned people will do the right things.
When someone discloses feelings of burnout, a supportive response can facilitate trust, hope, and effective recovery. A poor response can do the opposite.
I hear many stories about poor responses to burnout disclosure. Here's what NOT to do.
#burnout #whs #occhealth
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“Hopes are still high that if we pump enough radiation into Godzilla, the monster will eventually start building more things than it destroys!”
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“Hopes are still high” 🤦♂️ www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Calling all #IO psychologists, you’re invited to this virtual event hosted by Florida Industrial and Organizational Psychology! #FIOP #IOPsych
14.02.2026 21:18 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0This is a great point
11.02.2026 05:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Returning to work can be hard after any illness or injury. Evidence suggests that returning after burnout can be especially hard. This issue looks at why, and discusses ways to improve the return-to-work experience for workers who have been recovering from #burnout.
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This doesn’t surprise me. It’s partly that embracing AI to boost productivity leads to increased output expectations. It’s that AI fundamentally changes the nature of work to be less fulfilling.
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I didn’t really try studying until the last year of high school. I didn’t buy textbooks for college, because they were expensive and I did fine by taking notes in lectures. Then I started a PhD and discovered I didn’t know how to structure my own learning.
07.02.2026 19:07 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.
TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
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It’s fine if people decline a “deep-thinking” badge. It’s less fine that people are comfortable with a tool built on theft that harms the environment, drives layoffs and reduces paid work for real artists, constantly misinforms, and facilitates child pornography.
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What shortcut do you presume am I seeking?
29.01.2026 07:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Returning to work can be hard after any illness or injury. Evidence suggests that returning after burnout can be especially hard. This issue looks at why, and discusses ways to improve the return-to-work experience for workers who have been recovering from #burnout.
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No because I don’t use it and nor should anyone else.
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Listen to @drbensearle.bsky.social describe some of the obstacles to burnout recovery, and a few ways to overcome them mindonthejob.com/blog/2026/01...
21.01.2026 03:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"Criticisms of AI must include guidance for responsible engagement with it, not just exhortations to avoid it" good lord, I am so tired of these pieces that are the "sensible AI guy" stance that mostly comes down to "AI is here to stay and I am ready to lick the boot, begrudgingly"
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Happy New Year! 🎉
Read about my AI-FREE GUARANTEE and why I believe you get better value hiring consultants who commit to it.
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It isn't a new year's resolution (or even a change in my practice), but it's a commitment I'd like to see more people make in 2026.
Happy New Year! 🎉
Read about my AI-FREE GUARANTEE and why I believe you get better value hiring consultants who commit to it.
mindonthejob.com/services-2/a...
It isn't a new year's resolution (or even a change in my practice), but it's a commitment I'd like to see more people make in 2026.
On the left, a copy of Runescape: Shadows of Amascut, a novel by Erin M. Evans with a rotting jackal-monster sparking magic hunting two figures in the foreground. The background is the same as the larger image's: an eerie twilight desert with yellow sand dunes. The text reads "There are strange happenings in the desert" titanbooks.com.
Happy #Runescape: Shadows of Amascut Day (US Observed)! Please enjoy this tale of cultures in the throes of upheaval, many shades of grief, a very spooky desert that's a bit Fantasy Ancient Egypt and a bit haunted house, and dog things *you should not pet!*
30.12.2025 16:01 — 👍 46 🔁 24 💬 4 📌 1I am so sick of these articles saying, “Sure, AI has problems, but just imagine what it would be like if AI was totally different!”
26.12.2025 18:52 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Goose chase meme: WHY DOES MY NERVOUS SYSTEM NEED TO BE RESET WHAT'S UPSETTING IT imgflip.com
low key convinced all the talk about how to reset your nervous system is capitalist propaganda tbh
26.12.2025 16:33 — 👍 184 🔁 19 💬 10 📌 0
Yes! People are encouraged to believe that the holidays will cure their burnout, which (a) is unrealistic and (b) lets employers off the hook for allowing workers to burn out in the first place.
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In this holiday issue of Read Before Burning, I discuss why holidays don't cure burnout and suggest some ways to make the best of your break from work.
#psychology #iopsychology #burnout
#psychology
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“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
22.12.2025 14:00 — 👍 2172 🔁 726 💬 45 📌 93There’s no reason why we can’t keep fighting for healthier hours (and other improvements).
17.12.2025 19:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It wasn’t just dreamed up, it was fought for by labour movements. Their campaign was about reducing unreasonable working hours to a *maximum* of 8.
17.12.2025 19:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Exquisite work!
13.12.2025 00:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Time person of the year cover for 2025
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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Chocolate: ✅
Croissants: ✅
Chocolate-filled croissants ought to be amazing, but somehow they’re worse than either of these great foods is individually.
