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When startup teams burn out but won't admit it

Our startup team of six has been working 70-hour weeks for eight months and we're all burning out but nobody wants to be the first one to say they can't keep this pace because we're afraid it'll look like we're not committed to the mission. We keep pushing each other harder instead of acknowledging that we're all running on fumes, and I think we're about to lose our best people if we don't figure out how to talk about this.

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Your whole team is burning out, but nobody will admit it for fear of looking uncommitted.

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