What Burnout Taught Me About Threat Modeling My Own Life

01_BACKGROUND

Burnout crept up the way most vulnerabilities do: a series of small, individually reasonable decisions that compounded into a failure nobody designed. Late nights, no boundaries, treating rest as a resource to be exploited rather than budgeted.

02_VULNERABLE_SOURCE

1while (awake) {2    // BUG: no rate limit on self3    take_on(new_project());4    skip(rest);5}

Threat modeling my own schedule felt absurd until it worked. What is my attack surface? What are the single points of failure? Where is the missing rate limit? The framing turned a vague sense of dread into a concrete list of fixes.