Hey Sumana,
Thanks for writing that up and the bits of helpful advice you gave me over the years.
And like Micru, I have to agree with this part:
And I'd like to [...] exclude destructive communication from my life (yes,
there's some amount of burnout on toxic people and entitlement).
This is such a tragic waste on many levels. It's very hard to make real progress towards an organizations goals and have fun in doing so, if the environment contains to much of this. Even if every single person involved is putting effort towards those goals. You are definitely not the first person to leave the WMF (in part) because of this.
Cheers
-- Jeroen De Dauw - http://www.bn2vs.com Software craftsmanship advocate Evil software architect at Wikimedia Germany ~=[,,_,,]:3