> But when you're experiencing a defeat (even a defeat not caused by a single specific event), it can compound the whole "what am I doing with my life" feeling.
That's a very interesting perspective. You're suggesting that 'a burnout' is a consequence of series of defeats. Interesting.
there's a place for freenode/gitter/matrix.org's '#programming' room and there's a place for 'correctness of the information repository' that SO provides