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When teams normalize unsustainable pace and nobody wants to be the first to break

Our engineering team has been working 60-hour weeks for eight months to hit this product launch and everyone is pretending like this is sustainable but I can see people starting to break and make mistakes and I'm the tech lead but I don't know how to say we need to slow down without looking like I'm not committed. We all keep saying 'just a few more weeks' but we said that three months ago.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You can see your team burning out, but as the lead you're scared that calling for a break will make you look uncommitted.

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