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The Real Reason You're Feeling Buried and Edge of Burnout Might Be Because You Haven’t Upgraded Yourself to Match the Scale of Your Company

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Etienne de Bruin
Jul 30, 2025
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You know the feeling.

You’ve scaled the company, added headcount, expanded budget. But you’re still drowning in Slack threads, triaging bugs, rewriting JIRA tickets, and jumping into sprint planning like it’s your job to personally hold the engine together.

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