![Creative Control artwork](https://is2-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts113/v4/4b/f6/2c/4bf62cb7-141b-d11b-b101-547f972b745e/mza_872831985468456955.jpg/100x100bb.jpg)
How a Silicon Valley engineer turned creator is pushing back against hustle culture
Creative Control
English - April 21, 2022 09:00 - 28 minutes - ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsBusiness Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Burnout is getting worse—but recovery won't take as long as you think
Next Episode: Lilly Singh wants you to be a triangle
Last week I discussed burnout with therapist Kati Morton and got into the nuts and bolts of what happens in our brains when we experience burnout and how to recover from it. But I also wanted to get the perspective of a content creator. Mayuko Inoue is a software engineer who's worked for Intuit, Patreon, and Netflix. But she left her stabile career behind to become a full-time creator in 2020. So I wanted to unpack burnout with a creator who jumped out of one fire in working tech and into a completely different fire as a content creator.