Hustle Culture
The ideology that overwork is virtue and rest is weakness — rise and grind, sleep when you're dead. Peaked alongside cheap venture capital; the burnout data eventually filed its report.
Heard in the wild
“The startup's hustle culture burned through three ops managers in a year.”
Tone check: Danger
Sustained overwork degrades output — the research is unambiguous. Cultures that demand it are borrowing from a fund that forecloses.