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When your team glorifies overwork while burning out

Our startup team works 70-hour weeks and calls it 'hustle culture' but three people have had panic attacks this month and we all just keep grinding because stopping feels like failure. I don't know how to bring up that we're killing ourselves for metrics that don't even make sense.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group trapped in productivity theater, mistaking exhaustion for achievement while their humanity erodes.

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