Linux model prone to burnout?

You get burnout when you've been stuck doing things that have to be done for too long, to the point where you have no freedom for yourself in your day to day life.

The cause can be insufficient resources, in the more hobbyist/non corporate world. Or, in the corporate world, where it's just a job and I see people the most burned out - poor time management skills.

In the corporate world, there's chronically too many managers running around and too many meetings - leading to "when everything is a priority, nothing is" syndrome.

For me, I'm not feeling burned out - and I think that's in large part because I jealously and religiously protect my autonomy. And I've the other things that I've found help the most are the things no manager is going to ask you to do: spend time cleaning up the codebase, both for your own future sanity and to make easier for other people to contribute. And spending time on the community; getting people involved, teaching them what you do - it means there's more people to talk to about the cool stuff you're doing, and then those people start to do cool stuff all on their own.