Interesting Links for 07-01-2019

[andrewducker]

Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand?

(tags: physics knowledge viaFanf )

Lasers vs. Microwaves: A Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage

(tags: lasers harddrive storage microwave Technology )

Four foreign elections should should pay attention to in 2019, and none are American

(tags: viaDanielDWilliam politics Germany Europe india australia )

How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation

(tags: psychology happiness work usa burnout )

The concrete sound mirrors that once protected Britain

(tags: history sound uk airplanes )

The Hand Licking Incident (or how to work with your children to solve their problems)

(tags: children advice )

Comments

[alithea]

I wonder if it's less a Millennial thing and more a generations where women are expected to work fulltime regardless of whether they have kids thing...

[mountainkiss]

Quite possibly but it also applies to more of my mid-fifties white male clients than not. "Why am I burned out? Because I’ve internalized the idea that I should be working all the time. Why have I internalized that idea? Because everything and everyone in my life has reinforced it — explicitly and implicitly — since I was young." I think that she lays out one incredibly powerful, clear and painful path to burnout but I think there are others too.

[alithea]

Yeah, I agree. I said women specifically because I was thinking of the emotional labour and being the household project manager aspect - most of the mixed sex couples I know involve the female partner having to ask the man to do stuff, my own marriage included (Kev will cook, wash up and food shop but anything else doesn't occur to him unless he doesn't have any clean clothes to wear or whatever!).

[mountainkiss]

I think that's right but my clients have a massive mental load at work that follows them home. (So do I.)

[alithea]

I had that in my previous job too and now you've put it in my mind, I think my boss was seriously burnt out, which really didn't help the team. He's internalized the must be working all the time thing so much that he thinks it's the only thing in his life with value - academia is incredibly unhealthy that way and he's American too.

[mountainkiss]

A huge number of organisational cultures across all sectors have institutionalised this, I think.