Lula herself was severely overcommitted while working at Google (saying yes to everything, overplanning, overcommitting), and experienced a medical crisis (blood clot in her arm) that required surgery; despite the severity, she checked her calendar in the doctor's office to ensure the surgery wouldn't conflict with product launches, which became a turning point forcing her to reconsider the relationship between work and wellbeing.

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Anne Lula

Evidence Quote

I was dangerously dancing with burnout...I said, 'One second, I need to check my calendar'...I opened my calendar and I proceeded to thoroughly check that the moment we would schedule that surgery would not conflict with any of the product launches.

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Anne-Laure Le Cunff | Tiny Experiments | Talks at GoogleTalks at Google
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:16:44 AM

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