“My Model Of EA Burnout” (Logan Strohl) — EA Forum

(Linkposting with permission from the author, Logan Strohl. Below, my - Will's - excerpted summary of the post precedes the full text. The first person speaker is Logan.) …

dzdora 3y 5 3 0 I am a bit wary of telling EAs what I think they Should do. It seems to me that as a movement, EAs are awfully tangled up about Shoulds, especially when it comes to the thoughts of other EAs. Still, it seems awfully important to me that EAs put fuel into their gas tanks (or electricity into their batteries, if you prefer), rather than dumping that fuel onto the pavement where fictional cars sit in their imaginations. And not just a little bit of fuel! Not just when you’re too exhausted to go on without a little hit. I think that no matter what you hope to accomplish, it is wise

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