Mental Health in Open Source

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Author: Anthony Fu
Full Title: Mental Health in Open Source
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Document Tags: foss
Summary: The writer reflects on their experience with open source over four years, discussing challenges like burnout, unpreparedness, and managing expectations. They emphasize the importance of taking breaks, seeking help, and setting realistic goals. The writer also shares insights on balancing work and hobbies, maintaining project quality, and managing capacity to avoid burnout.
URL: https://antfu.me/posts/mental-health-oss

One interesting thing about Open Source is that one is probably never prepared. You might encounter tricky technical problems, or have to keep up with the new technologies, but there are also a bunch of things other than coding that you have to deal with. You have to be your customer support to answer questions; be a designer, a writer to prepare nice documentation; a project manager to keep the project on track; a team leader to onboard new contributors and keep the team motivated; marketing your stuff; speaking at conferences; and so on. Those are the “side-effects” of being an open source developer, many things come to you in a bundle, not only the code. (View Highlight)
I probably enjoy programming too much that I don’t have strong feelings about this. The line between “work” and “fun” is quite blurry on my side. Sometimes, a fun project can become something serious that people rely on. (View Highlight)
I also enjoy playing indie games a lot, while I keep thinking of getting serious about developing some games - but that’s another story - at least now I still have some ways to escape when I really want to stay away from code. (View Highlight)
This blog you are reading took me roughly a week to write (that’s a pretty long time for me), fragmented into multiple sessions. I feel also helps me to rethink and reorganize my thoughts and feelings, and actually, writing them down makes me feel much better about my anxiety. (View Highlight)

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