Shared: Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give - Kenneth Reitz https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-03-18-open_source_gave_me_everything_until_i_had_nothing_left_to_give.

> "The house I live in matters more than the code I ship. That's not something I would have written ten years ago. It's the truest thing I can write now."

Honestly, centering your identity around work (whether corp or open source) is probably just never a good idea.

#Burnout #Opensource

Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give

I thought I was having a spiritual awakening. I was having a psychiatric emergency. I was at a tech conference in Sweden when it started. I hadn't slept in...

Kenneth Reitz
@roytang i read this and it hurt me much. i nearly had a similar issue like this.