Natalie Luke

Burnout isn't a wellness problem. It's a responsibility design problem — and I can prove it.

The year my house burned down, my organization asked me to publish 15 peer-reviewed papers.

Most professors produce one or two in a year. I had a destroyed home, a family to hold together, and a publication pipeline that couldn't stop moving. There was no playbook for what I was being asked to carry. And there was certainly no one in the room formally acknowledging how much of it had quietly become mine.

That year di...