Another episode featuring HBO's The Pitt? You know it. This time: finding your course of action in the space between personal challenges and systemic and structural failings.Footnotes:<ul><li><a href="http://whatworks.fyi/articles/facing-down-burnout">Read the essay version here.</a></li><li>"<a href="https://whatworks.fyi/articles/busyness">Rethinking Busyness</a>" on What Works</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pitt">HBO's The Pitt</a></li><li>"<a href="https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(24)00668-2/fulltext">Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work–Life Integration</a> in Physicians and the General US Working Population Between 2011 and 2023"</li><li><a href="https://edhub.ama-assn.org/steps-forward/module/2702509">AMA STEPS Forward</a></li><li><a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1990-a-spectre-haunting">A Spectre, Haunting</a> by China Miéville</li></ul>

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Apples, Oranges, and Iceberg Metrics

Work is central to the human experience. It helps us shape our identities, care for those we love, and contribute to our communities. Work can be a source of power and a catalyst for change. Unfortunately, that's not how most of us experience work—even those who work for themselves. Our labor and creative spirit are used to enrich others and maintain the status quo. It's time for an intervention. What Works is a show about rethinking work, business, and leadership for the 21st-century economy. Host Tara McMullin covers money, management, culture, media, philosophy, and more to figure out what's working (and what's not) today. Tara offers a distinctly interdisciplinary approach to deep-dive analysis of how we work and how work shapes us.