RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/116793186588138433

The first half of this essay by @iris_meredith will be personally resonant to anyone who has experienced burnout.

And then the second half says:
"At this point, what the industry needs more than anything is a rest and for the pressure to produce to turn down. We are, for the moment, out of any real innovative ideas, and we've been running down the technological and social infrastructure that we need to support that kind of work. We need, as with any kind of winter, to slow down, do less new work, reinforce social connections and maintain and repair some of the social and technological damage that we've done by building so many new things. This might look like spending more time maintaining projects rather than starting new ones, settling on fewer, more robust technologies to build new things going forward..."

Transposing this to academic research (especially math "in the age of LLMs") is left as an exercise to the reader of this toot ;p