I learned about burnout the hard way—by having several of them, including a Christmas Eve spent in the hospital hooked up to tubes. I wish I had recognized the signs earlier. You don’t have to hit that wall like I did. In this talk, I’ll share how to see burnout coming and what to do about it.

I’ve been crafting software for 23 years—long enough to remember the joy of debugging for Internet Explorer 4.0 and Netscape Navigator. My first software ran on an 8-bit computer, and I wrote my first