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Four hooded figures in dark robes riding horses through a destroyed modern city street at night. The scene is illuminated by vibrant neon lighting in pink, purple, and orange hues from damaged storefronts and buildings. Debris and rubble are scattered across the wet pavement, creating an apocalyptic cyberpunk atmosphere.

The four horsemen of a dying career (and the shields that protect you)

| In Productivity
| 9 minute read

Working for my then employer’s Munich office in 2011, I felt it—that hollow sensation when your career becomes a treadmill. The acquisition of the company I originally joined had stripped away the technological beauty and purpose I’d thrived on for more than a decade. The rigid culture, the pure commercial focus, the loss of autonomy.

I wasn’t incompetent, broke, or irrelevant… I was just bored.

And boredom, I realized, was the first horseman of a dying career.