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Office Hours November 2025 with Kate Donovan

16 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Tamsen Webster. This content was uploaded by Tamsen Webster. This is a YouTube excerpt titled "Office Hours November 2025 with Kate Donovan" (metadata timestamp 2026-02-16). It appears to be an office‑hours style, multi‑speaker discussion likely led by Kate Donovan; the speakers (labeled here as SPEAKER A and SPEAKER B) discuss intellectual originality (the value of building on others' work rather than reinventing the wheel) and strategies for managing burnout by distinguishing workplace versus individual responsibility.

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A lot of times people think they have a new thought and they do not. Now, counter to popular belief, it's not a bad thing to discover that somebody else has explored a similar question, or even if they've come up with an answer already, that's actually a good thing because it means now you can build on what they've done and you're A, not recreating the wheel, and B, not going out in the marketplace as if you are the first person to discover something.
So if we can, if we want to know how to manage burnout better and we understand the web of causation, then we know what the workplace is responsible for and what the individual is responsible for, and we can treat it properly instead of blaming one side or the other.