Yay for exposès on workloads/burnouts

I ranted online in the wake of a mangaka passing away. Time to share further thoughts.

Rian Sygh @rianSygh.social

"Every time a beloved mangaka dies I think about how hard they work, how little they sleep, and how much time is stolen in the pursuit of deadlines. I think about my friend Ian, who died from that same pressure, and I wonder what art was left inside of them when their body breaks down."

Then I replied:

"The more exposès on education, entertainment, and other industriy complexs of crunch culture, the better. Rise and grinders with masochistic meritocracy, to the dishonest content mills with dishonest workloads. It's time to reckon with those who burn the candle at both ends as a medal of honour. 🛋📣
I doubt this school of thought will go away along with the vices of the industry. It's going to come back with the want to push for success and financial maximization. As somebody who's studied progressive overload, there is none, can't work more hours. Physically illiterate tops will be watched 🔺️👀🛋"

Seeing how the sausage is made, with the magician when it comes to workloads, Bring it on. Since being the one-and-only marketability is used to court sceptics has be shown with the emperor with no clothes. The cookie jar of emotional labour is seen, because committee can't be open at all fronts, unlike and individual. Some things can't scale out of a single artist.

Illustrator's Summery

Comparing to the end of the year, the artistic exploration past the twenties have been wondrous.

Now that I have it, I'm obsessed. I'm not gonna care if I'm going to get traction for doing what I love. I'll do the artless hackneyed work for the twitch advertisers if they want there traction for there core gamer demographic.

This commitment is here now, needing to be sated.
 

Lazyiness redefined

"Bed rotting" Will mean an entirely new as these moments of meditate peace bring another aspect to life, let is all pass.

It's nice to see different perspectives on productivity and what it means. That those who overcommit or work, cannot change the interoperability of our systems of publishing.

Despite my own takes of fat positivity and others, it's refreshing what is brought to the table with laziness does not exist. Limiting social media use and using blockers is standard advice.

Understanding the backlash of relationships of our work and life really helps, to its Calvinist roots and carried flag to this day.

As we define what it means through what is mechanical terms of productivity, effective usage of the time for a life well lived will be understood ongoing. Slack will be utilized to own personalized ways to help our own lives.

Reminds me of the 100% effort fitness myth. Of scalable difficulty. 17

min.

Collapsed fence

Rough 10 min Trace from my smartphone.

The winds were fierce last week, causing something to make a fence collapse on my way to the gym.

Collapsed, meaningless walls, such as this with many forgotten details, there were so many cans of people who threw them over as this got over. It was a junkyard of mess, and there's a fence and crew now. The construction was saying that I was in the way.

It makes me wonder how I got back up from burnout and shouldn't put myself down despite other temptations, Them cans symbolizing the wreck and brought of many of the breaks that were taken at many of a night.

Everbody is too busy to see what an impact that has on ones own quality of life that burnout can do, and that's okay.

There's this self-deprecating bingo card that I noted with its ways for humor. Yet I can't blame myself fully now, it's all the wind with the market forces having its way with its hustle culture. That's merely what it means to make a comic.

Not worth it, with the market one could only make guesses and see what works as a business. Not my problem as the weather and the thing without autonomy does the act the way, only way is to jump back. It's all better now.

Betterhelp: the commodification of burnout

Something that is being checked out by the ftc should be noted.

Leave it to social media to make a problem of burnout, then sell a solution to 'whales' for it.

It started, it started again, so many BetterHelp within this current year, and I'd like to make an informed customer.

 41 Min

When the pewdiepie can dunk on this, as the right opnion suggests, then there has to be problem.

There's a rising tide of BetterHelp advertising and premotion within YouTube, this is yet another sceptical take that It can do any good.

As with qualified experts here that are dealing with mental health, the deepest amount of care and attention is needed, not a hack phoned in job.

This is a gig economy, we are dealing with mental health that should be treated with the upmost care. With this competitive commodification. Then It's going to have a race to the bottom.

45 min with cussing.

 So I urge all to seek a wiser alternative than this.

Four groups and they're mindsets

This is going to be an experiment of psychology.

Overlaps, intersections and conflicts, from the making of comics.

From the camps that Scott Mcloud prophesied in his book. Two duel-minded mindsets that have been a way to visualize paths. Be it a pin-up artist, comic artist and other ways.

Four paradoxes

• The Classicist sensation>Beauty=Gatekeeping/Curation 

This means selection and audiences, providing the backbone of techniques for the medium and building trust through the craft.

There's gatekeeping, flows of attention. Handled inefficiently, which is gatekeeping, handled well is respected curation.

• The Animists intuition>content=Professionalism/Hackneyed hustle culture.

Gotta produce more content! Content is king! < Infamous article of Bill Gates, starting the content farms.

An infinity of content to sell to advertisers, direct, the ocean of content.

All to sell the marketing of discovery, (which is exposure within a outfit), discovery really being sold by google to advertisers, which are funded by them. Making us the product. All that status, all that for them.

Forced into this transaction, worldview and contract, made by them.

This has produced more content and the body of work within the internet. It has developed businesses her to and out. The heart of commercialism and the thing that moves the work. Providing hustle culture, hackneyed work.

Patrick Williams has touch on this video before.

Providing the bulk of the audience, along with its bulk.

Yet the professionalism is what is helps to pursue the craft, and calling. Especially with the internet allowing it. I've been pursuing with consistency to work without authenticity.

Along with the importance of storytelling and turning bigger scenes. Which no beautiful illustrations cannot save.

• The Formalist thinking>form=Creativity/failure;amateurism

The improvisational jazz of our times.

Experimentalism here, at least if one fails here. One is an amateur, otherwise the hack will get paid and get a bad review of literary critics.

Creativity here is valued, making a category of one. So take note where this works.

• The Iconclast feeling>Truth (poetic memoir in commercial, journalism within literary.) = Believability;verisimilitude/nihilism

This is what it means to push through, to tell what matters. Through the work through those who care.

Too much though, everything is lazy parody though. With no point of view.

Content Farmication

Commercial content. 40 min

Live content for consumption, addictive cycles for added monetization of our attention.

With content creation, (not creativity and art) made and served a disposable commodity! Wow!

Content farms and hustle culture is all the craze. Just dispose your flesh to the pipeline of content. The Outcomes of the homogenous masscultified commercialization!

Yes, there needs to be a conversation.

This what the social media, these private company says to sell to direct advertisers, the real customer. Vast hackneyed content farms farther than the eye can see. All advertising to build our brands; Products to sell to fuel mindless business growth.

This video describes a content farm rise and fall. As genres and subject genres grow, so will these be seen by opportunities. 1 hour 6 long

This is a call to action to see it, so that the homogenous whirlpool can be avoided. Respect genre, respect that, not the content pool.

Who teaches the productivity schedule right?

There's more to learn more from a physical coach such as Eric Helms for physical programming, Ben Carpenter for Diet advice, and Adam Meakins for pain physiotherapy for how to keep a professional schedule of productivity.

There are more others, Like Alan Thrall, Olan, Nippard, Sean, you name it.

Those connected to the physical realm with their bodies take care of themselves better, who knew?

Anybody who says that you can't work more hours.

They teach it better, more than any social media influencer, teacher, or anybody who desires to overwork has, thank you.

Complient with being burned out.

Trained to do the physical impossibility

There is a self-help industrial complex, an annoying boss, teacher and big publishing grind where it will proselytize.

Burning the candle at both ends ain't passion. Beware of it spreading to the education industrial complex. Young people who want to be picked by a famous art institution may sign up for this. Famous.

Two videos, Entertainment journalism and the like will reveal it, self-published and made it. It's nice to see these survive with its true fans to support it.

Here we are then, most likely freelancers be forewarned.

Nothing is worth

Nothing is worth burning the candle at both ends.

Beyond nothing, is worth than burning the candle, then taking it and stomping it down.

Not that inspired email that you showed you made a difference.

Not even that the need to carry on the craft like a holy choir, the professional act.

Not for a gamified influencer with a hyperactive work ethic of smart work ethic. Philanthropic massaging for exploitation of the attention economy.

No poetry of inspiration to push through the physically impossible.

Overcharge, bringing offence if one can. Through the passivity of the industrial need for cheap labour.

Even then leave with strenuous effort, comforted with not being used. Not even worth it for overtime.

Bed, not worth it.

Two cakes that can't be eaten

Not going to name names, simply rant.

One can't proselytize the hedonic treadmill of burning the candle at both ends, valorise it, then advise against burnout.

One can ever work smarter and more organized, or waste effort getting exhausted. A fork in the road.

Pacing professionalism with work-life balance will always out-do the passion of burning the candle at both ends.

Also, one can't proselytize against going to a famous college, while setting up a mlm scene of the tyranny of being picked that pushes others into debt also.

Set up an environment that's an alternative to that, not a replacement.

Strained time productivity

Another illustrative brainstorm.

Why do industry complexes keep pushing for more? These narratives of physically impossible work hours? Working more and more hours to try to outlast the competition. Crunching it out with property over human rights? Entrepreneurs who forget, because their job is to not do their job with assets, even overworking them. What makes them forget to always please their shareholders?

Why do self-help (or self-harm gurus) lapse into burning the candle at both ends as this magical key to success? Why do they want to have their cake and eat it too? Saying that one should value their time yet treat it worthlessly through exploiting freelancer's passion with unsustainable, unrealistic work schedules?

Three words:

Commercialization, and industrialization.

That's it, santa doesn't exist. I'm not sure how to counteract this in the western model of production. Unionization? No, that's too toxic to develop, and a good union altogether is another question.

These environments will keep continuing, treating others as disposable cogs, churning out product, not creative art. Social media merely encourages it.

Seek better.

It's okay to not be productive

To not make

To not follow the ruckus of social media, to be a slave of hierarchy and the politics of agnostic entertainers.

Social media status roles are fast and fleeting. Finite games preposed once one ships and shares their work.

Pressuring the schedule for ample opportunity for to do the work.

All to contemplate how beautifully expensive 

doing nothing is.

Complete privacy.

A walk in nature, a talk with the family. Food preparation of porridge, all to love what is there.

Time to recover, the slack of the assembly line to help it.

The bliss of the joy of missing out, dancing with the fear of missing out.

It's okay.

Social media: Status Roles

The ghost of a shell needs examination

I don't think this is a tantrum, nor do I think it's a wailing of a fake underdog political pundit who wants to seek attention. "Telling it how it is".

This is me, taking the bullet out of my ribcage, examining the ashes of my burnout. Then growing up and moving on, if I can do that is. I don't want to make a mistake like last time.

If the social media ceo's like Jeff or their ilk, send me a hired assassin as I write this. Tell them that making others look at an excavator golem was worth it, I made it in good taste.

Social media takes one of the most valuable resources, time, for the nebulous carasoul of status roles. Not caring if one is burned out chasing the hours doing free 'publicity' within the social media chat boxes. Along inside the ways that's apparently a way to promote oneself, a brand advertisement for people looking for you. Unmeasurable, yet still a time sink.

A fair weather friend or a true friend is blurry. The tribal high school rules could dominate one's life within social media if one lets it.

Again, the double-standards of free work within art are too much.

I simply can't build a brand, a social media brand for everyone. It takes time. Time that one can't pay with a price. The bottomless chasm of free that comes with it with the social media.

Smallest viable audience applies here.

Could friendship really be bought? With Twitch subscriptions and server boosts? I hope not, yet the relative force of status roles are a thing. The stories we tell ourselves that others can afford.

Each free project is still a project, humblebragging premotion with high, made up social media stats that cannot lie. Who's moving up? Who's moving down? "I don't have much, but I have more than you do." I have to Tailgate the status media game if one has too, if somebody wants to stay within solvency.

Status media roles are simply the weather, present and neutral, same as the free price tag. Since once cannot see this basic sociological axiom, though, one can act accordingly with the artifice social media has constructed around it.

To leave like a good, polite customer. That's the only thing I've got. Thanks Seth, for the wisdom.

Thanks for letting me rant.

Three Emotional burnout Avoidance Brainstorms

The clustering brainstorm and the phone

I've already touched on how to avoid physical burnout by sleeping sensible hours, incorporating some form of physical activity in ones own lifestyle. You know the drill. A working engine in top physical condition will ensure the brain centre on top is working in satisfactory order.

I can only give anecdotal evidence. Mainly because I've had to use myself as an experiment to find methods of getting back to work that's both fulfilling and productive. Not wanting it to be a syllabus, but a story.

Yet I'll give advice anyway, because I'm not a believer in making mental health a commodity for hack work where one can throw legalese up to cover it up.

Nothing in, nothing out, right?

• Do work that is more meaningful.

Doing work that's feeling too hackish? Too serviceable to an audience that wants remarkable work; work that makes their pants explode.

Because they're on a ride that may not work. That's the whole point of being creative. That pain of that's universal to us to the eruption of joy, the thrill. That's the task of a creative professional, with his practice.

Social grooming, social projects could be a distraction from finding those who seek the difference, since the return is nebulous. It's more about impact rather than effort to find the magic.

Soul-searching on what projects motivate oneself, (bigger or smaller?) Is the investment of emotional labour worth it, and does it reflect those long-term values? A pivot of life choices and the opportunity choices may have to be made.

Circle autonomy, relatedness, and competence to find what matters and to tell yourself a better story, to guide yourself along. Here is my example. With clustering brainstorming, summon what's resonates within your intuition and place it. Bringing it into being.

My own brainstorm to show what I've done with analysing what it means. Quotes, concepts, role models, certain aspects of my life plucked and examined.

• Set boundaries.

Do not spend time with clients/audience who disrespects your physical needs with your sleep, family, and connection.

For a working professional, find clients who treat you like a creative professional, for hobbyists, find ways to pivot to be creative. Be your own best boss of your hobby.`

Another analogy for setting boundaries is to think yourself as a mobile phone, what apps and activities drain and charge your motivations? What drains them faster? What charges them up? An interesting thought experiment that I got from a Jordon Syatt podcast episode. By Josh Smith.

Finding better clients and a audience.

Here's another clustering brainstorm.

Another example of me brainstorming content for this post. No reference is necessary when starting and considered a creative constraint at the time, or a signpost to find further reference, regardless. Fail fast because this is working from the smallest most viable conception to proceed onwards.

• Finding the smallest viable audience/breakthrough

This is about starting from a clean slate. As one starts from a nucleus of the smallest viable breakthrough, circling it to indicate the creativity part of oneself. Encouraging the subconscious to bring out the ideas into actuality and development. Starting from the smallest viable conception, finding what resonates and

A Writers/art block cure

The prescribed solution is to get a stomach pump if the laxatives don't work, and then plenty of water to flush to bowels to get the blockage out.

Seth has the nice solution, the link to the origin of writer's block is in the cussy show notes.

First it started with the poets, then the writers, then any other creators within the field. The more they approach the tasty work, the work that blows peoples pants off. The more it speaks. As if afflicted by a physical condition. That's giving one stomach cramps.

Yet it's all an aggressive self-nocebo. A woven negative story that we tell ourselves that stops us from doing the work.

It could be exhaustion, it could be flirting with karoshi that's stopping it, but certainly not an art block.

My Solution, work like a plumber, see it as merely and investment of work hours then clock out to keep that physical condition within check along with family and friends. You know what they have to say about plumbers like that who has to rescue princesses. Most importantly of all, plumbers don't wear ties.

"Let there work be to them as is his common work to the labourer, no gigantic efforts necessary. He need tie no wet towels round his brow. Nor sit for thirty hours without moving as men have sat or said that they have sat." - Novelist Anthony Trollope

Good and bad ideas? That's ortherexia: a eating disorder of conceptualization speaking, you need to articulate those ideas out to sort them out first, get the big rocks with the opportunity cost taken cared of..

Most of it's going to be long work anyway. Showing up, giving the opportunity, compiling the tools and references and doing the investment. Long work that gets better (Within reasonable sleep schedules, and life balance.) rather than harder for the sake of it. Embrace the marathon of articulation.

In comes the long hours, the opportunity and outcomes the art baby like a hot potato from the oven

(Note, long work that's plain busywork rather than productive ain't good either, look for the work that will amplify. Not merely spend your time regarding social media and other social grooming tasks so you have time for the important work. Some social media minimalism can help.)

It's the narrative we tell ourselves, best what to get over it is to not believe it in the first place and tell a better narrative.

Link to the podcast episode in question.

Recommended podcasts and a Audiobook

Useful knowledge stuff into ear holes

Aesthetic

Draftsman

Ignore the ads here, but Stan Propenko and especially Marshall Vandruff offer various insights into the artistic field.

All Episodes

Personal Favourites episodes are on storytelling, composition and not going to art school.

Physical

Iron culture

A kind, democratic pair who interview various others within the iron culture, giving body composition and workout tips. Eric and Omar are always the nicest gym fitness pair, and I've learned a lot, with witty interjections.

All Episodes
Personal favourite episodes are on burnout, when trying hard fails, along with the first episodes on the history of iron culture. They also did an interview with a trans bodybuilder called the self-made man, which is worth checking out.

3DMJ

Deserves a shoutout, Eric helms and his crew does another podcast regarding bodybuilding. I've learned a lot with diet, and it's influenced my training a lot. 

All Episodes
Current favourite episode are #203 The unexpected ways bodybuilding makes you stronger, #213 How I wish I would have started, along with #Overcoming Burnout and motivation plateaus. Have not gone through it fully yet.

Creative Business

Akimbo

Seth, again, is one of the wisest marketing analysts and guru. Impossible to find a good one in this climate, a rare anomaly. Learn the taxonomy of business and what it means to be a creative professional within his podcast.

(Update: wow, he's the most relistened podcasts, ton's of info in the show notes too.)

All Episodes
Favorite episodes is on the paradox on the red lines, freelancers and ignoring sunk costs.

Work life with Adam Grant

Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist, recommended by Seth. He's great with productivity strategies and finding balance.

All Episodes

Favorite episodes are Burnout is everybody's problem, Dolly Parton is burning up, not burning out and The real reason you procrastinate.

Audiobook, Free - The future of the radical price by Chris Anderson

Useful book on the pricing of free and adopting an abundance mindset, recommended by Seth, it's on how to use to help one's own price, along with business models around it.

Culture

Mystery show

Six episodes, all grand. It's all about Starlee exploring the comedy show mystery of life, shows the power of story. I recommend the case of the belt buckle, which brought a tear to my eye.

All episodes

Things Karoshi is not

Refinement of the dreaded bot, Karosh. Within his lair. 30min

He warns, burnt out shadows of those who are gone.

• Staying up late nights with friends, accidentally.
• One accidental coffee drink that leads to a silly all-nighter.
• A deadline irresponsibly pursued at the last minute.

Beware to advice of burning the candle at both ends. Why does it spread?

Do you want to be another cog?

There is plenty of bad amateur advice, the self-help industrial complex will churn it out all in attempt to make a short-head of distribution, just churn out advice. Regardless of contradiction.

Any Guru or couch worth their salt will at least be consistent in one thing, on not burning the candle at both ends. Anybody who advises it within one of their podcasts or videos one ignoring sleep as a good course of action are either:

• Competitive in status, they won't take responsibility, like an industrialist. It's taken across their brains in a lapse of judgements. Treating students as disposable products.
• They don't care about your mental health, hypocrites because the moment they apply their physically impossible sleep schedules, they'd complain to high hills. Set boundaries against burning the candle at both ends. Survivorship bias runs rampant with this advice.
• Because sex sells, in the worst way. I mean it.

You can happily ignore this advice is it does not respect your mental/physical health, even take a break from it, and even fire bad teachers/bosses if it gets too much.

So, don't follow it. If you want help, get the basics down first. You could be the world's worst teacher, coach and boss. Be it your responsibility to not take their advice seriously, and even fire them if it's making your life miserable.

So beware of burning the candle at both ends.

The cheating of physicality

Overclocked. A combination of a digital clock and radiator.

Nourishment, not contest.

No luck at trying to cheat at physicality. All science leads to excessive work hours leads to burnout. So no attention to the contest outside. Only friends are needed.

Through all a reductionism.

Physicality does not care about opportunity cost.
Does not care about friends.
Does not care about your quality of life.

Like the terms of clean'n dirty within the diet discipline. It only registers quantitatively.

The numbered nourishment, not sociological contest.