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Discussion on: I've worked at fast-growing startups and Silicon Valley tech companies for the past seven years. AMA.

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Yaşar Anıl Sansak

Thank you for the detailed answer, appreciate it :) I am a junior developer and working at a fast-growing startup but I think my work-life balance is not good right now. Not that my company asks me to work at weekends but I just can not get work out of my mind. Do you have some tricks to empty your mind?

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Gergely Orosz

Ah, this brings back memories: I also had this at Skyscanner for many months, when starting on a new and exciting product. Meditating/mindfullnmess daily helped me ease it a lot, I listened to this mindfullness compilation, though there are a lot. Also, making sure I did something active (workout, walking etc) even when I was busy, helped me do better.

Minfullness was this weird thing, where everyone told me, it will feel silly for a few weeks and you won't feel anything, but it will slowly start to kick in. It helped, and it also helped put things in perspective for me.

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Yaşar Anıl Sansak

Again, thanks for the answer :) It really helped. I will check mindfulness thingy out.

Cheers!