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When startup teams create toxic productivity cultures

Our startup team has been grinding for eighteen months and everyone is burned out but we all keep pretending we're fine because no one wants to be the one who can't handle it. We have this unspoken competition about who can work the longest hours and I can see it's destroying people but I don't know how to break the cycle without looking weak.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Your team treats overwork like a contest, and no one dares admit they're worn out.

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