I Almost Burned Out. Then I Built Systems Instead.

The Problem Isn't You. It's the Architecture. By early 2026, I was running three projects simultaneously, answering Slack messages at 11pm, and telling myself the chaos was temporary. It wasn't. According to McKinsey's research on burnout and resignations , employees who experience burnout are 2.3 times more likely to leave their jobs—and the root cause isn't weak character, it's unsustainable workloads built without supporting infrastructure. I was living that statistic. The honest diagnosis: I