If you use Google or Microsoft for everything else at work, you can now use them to log into PETALS too. We've integrated single sign-on (SSO) with both, so nobody on your team needs to remember or reset another password.

Less time spent on insecure passwords and password managers, more time spent on your team's snapshot.

If you'd still rather skip passwords altogether, we've got you covered there too. Toggle over to the magic link option at the bottom of the login form and we'll email you a one-click link instead.

Try logging in now and see it for yourself.

A few other things shipped alongside this: a batch of smaller user-experience improvements and bug fixes, and a brand new marketing site at usepetals.com.

We've also been experimenting with a 3rd anniversary campaign called PETALS Solo, a version you can run with just a friend or peer rather than a full team. It taps back into the original idea behind PETALS: personal weekly reflections that give you a reason to check in with each other.

Give it a try and let us know what you think.

One more thing in progress: scheduled snapshots, so your team's Friday check-in goes out automatically instead of relying on someone remembering to send it. We're opening this up to a handful of teams early, get in touch if you want first access.

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When I was at the LDX3 conference the other week, Dominika Rogala gave a really interesting talk about the four dimensions of burnout.

She was talking generally about burnout in leadership, but it translates to all levels. And it feels like it's becoming more prevalent now as tech accelerates again with AI and agentic workflows.

Dominika talked about the four dimensions of burnout as:

• exhaustion
• emotional distance
• loss of efficacy
• the gap between who you think you should be and who you actually are

At that point, it becomes very hard to keep saying that burnout is just a lack of resilience. This is why so many traditional well-being interventions fail. Mindfulness classes, coaching, wellness perks. They can help individuals, but they do not redesign the environment people return to every day.

I relate to a lot of the points Dominika made there. And I highly recommend you go and watch the talk now that it's been published on the LeadDev website.

But this is one of the reasons why serenity is such an important factor in the PETALS framework.

When I introduced the PETALS concept as a team exercise, I was talking from the voice of experience.

I'd been in roles which were burning me out. I'd been in management and contributor roles that were forcing me to the edge. And it's the reason why that factor is so important in this framework.

Most other frameworks don't even ask about how you're feeling from a serenity, stress, or well-being perspective. Most of them focus on the outcomes and the business metrics.

But the reason why PETALS lands so well is that we're asking people how they're feeling about things.

Burnout is just one angle when we talk about well-being and serenity. But it's an important one.

I really encourage you to go and watch Dominika's talk. It's about 20 minutes long and was quite eye-opening from a leadership perspective and from the perspective of any team member you work with.

It gives you a way to think about how burnout could be affecting your team, and where you could potentially change things for the better.

And also remember to keep those health checks happening regularly.

Use the Serenity score as a guide to have that conversation.