I overworked myself. For the past 5 years, I barely took a day off. I shipped 30 startups, wrote 30,000 tweets, made 70 YouTube videos, and answered thousands of support requests. The weird part is, it never felt like work. It felt like play. Until recently. For the first time in years, I’ve struggled to get things done. I don’t want to open my laptop. The things that used to make me happy suddenly feel heavy. That scares me a bit, because the playful side of work is what got me here. And right now, it feels like I lost it. So I’m taking a break. I’ll still do about an hour of maintenance work a day, but the rest of my time will go to real life. I’m training for Hyrox in Korea on May 25, so I’ll put my energy there for now and train 20 hours a week. I went through a little burnout once before, in 2021. What helped me was going back to basics: training, reading, eating well, and sleeping 8 hours. It brought the hunger back then. I trust it will again!

Destilado

Marc Lou cuenta que tras 5 años sin parar (30 startups shippeadas, 30k tweets, 70 videos) empezó a sentir burnout real y decidió tomarse una pausa, volviendo a las bases que ya le funcionaron en 2021: entrenar, leer, comer bien y dormir 8 horas.

¿Por qué lo guardaste? Gonzalo, como indie hacker que también shippea mucho, puede identificarse con el riesgo de burnout y valorar la estrategia de recuperación de un builder reconocido.

Ideas

• Su estrategia para salir del burnout es volver a lo básico —entrenar, leer, comer bien y dormir 8 horas—, la misma fórmula que le funcionó en un burnout previo en 2021.

  Vida y reflexión

• Decidió tomarse una pausa real: reducir su trabajo a mantenimiento mínimo diario (1 hora) y dedicar el resto del tiempo a entrenamiento físico intenso (Hyrox) y vida real, en vez de forzar el shipping.

  Vida y reflexión