I intend to "Fat-FIRE", and the only reason I don't retire now is to see how much I can leverage my position to do crazy shit at massive scale. Paradoxically, this sets me up for larger windfalls because I can take risks that my peers do not take.
I am an early retiree, who sometimes thinks it would be nice to get back into the industry just to steer or at least nudge the projects I still care about very much into the direction I'd like to seem them to go. And because they are corporate-driven (hello, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google!) it is just too hard to do from the outside.
One thing that I see is that people complain about politics rather than recognizing the natural force it is and how to bend and master it towards your will.
The working title is "Way of Code"
Anyway, you might as well give it a try, see what happens.
Let's see where I can get to...