Noam Segal: belief

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…But it's like wild here just only goes up. There's not a sweet spot and then it comes down again. And then if you go back to the previous chart, exactly the same thing. It's just very linear, everything goes up and gets worse as your company size grows. That's wild. Absolutely. I would say one thing to highlight here, if you look at burnout, for example, is that ... Even the lowest is still fairly high. So I would say people are feeling somewhat less burnt out, somewhat healthier working for a startup. But I would view these levels of burnout, of worry as worrisome. I'm worried about the level of worry right now in tech. It is not a good vibe. You mentioned how we met a decade ago with Airbnb. I do feel like the vibe was very different then in tech. So I am a bit concerned about the numbers that we're seeing here. But yes, from a relative sense, a relative point of view, perhaps one should consider doing a shift and starting your own thing or working for a smaller company for sure. Yeah, exactly. And that'll be one of the takeaways. You know what would be awesome? Is if we do one of these for non-tech, I'm really curious, just like you think people are scared and worried in tech. I'm so curious how that would compare to say the blue collar folks or other functions. I don't know if we have the audience to do that, but that'd be really interesting.…

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