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Maya Kaczorowski
Personal blog · mayakaczorowski.com/blogssecuritystartupscareer
Maya Kaczorowski's personal blog at mayakaczorowski.com covers security, startups and career. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Burning out and quitting”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its post on burnout, which one commenter found while looking at a burnout self-assessment quiz.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Security product builder, puzzle and ice cream lover. Cofounder at Oblique. Previously led product at Tailscale, and security products at GitHub and Google.
Most-linked posts?
- Burning out and quitting2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-23
What Hacker News says?
If you'd like to do the assessment without sharing your name and email with a stranger, the quiz appears to be a skin of https://monkeypuzzletraining.co.uk/free-downloads/MBI_self_a... Interpreting the results is described here: https://monkeypuzzletraining.co.uk/burnout-inventory-results I came across this last night in an excellent blogpost on burnout: https://mayakaczorowski.com/blogs/burnout
Comment linking /blogs/burnout
on “How far away from burnout are you?”Submitted Burning out and quitting as a story · 921 points
HN discussionSubmitted BeyondCorp is dead, long live BeyondCorp as a story · 137 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Sucks in Security? as a story · 3 points
HN discussion