My hope is that my personal "retirement" won't mean "no longer working for money" but rather "no longer having to work for money".
I like what I do and could see doing it (with a more flexible schedule) for many many years in the future.
I like what I do and could see doing it (with a more flexible schedule) for many many years in the future.
On an unrelated side note, I don’t post my public twitter handle on this account’s profile page, but I did on the account that bears my real name. Some years ago you followed me on twitter and were to date the only person from HN to have done so. In gratitude, I followed you back, and I have been duly rewarded by your engaging content and your explanations of the ins and outs of auth. I particularly enjoyed your ELI5 thread on oauth. I have an appreciation for DevRel I would not developed had I not been reading your tweets.
To come back to the topic at hand: Tech is for the public good. Shout it from the rooftops!
I don't get paid a dime, and work harder, each day, than I ever have (like really "each day" -My GH Activity Graph is solid green, and I don't game it. I like to write Swift every single day).
In fact, almost every bit of software that I've shipped (personally), in the last fifteen years or so, has been unpaid. I was paid to manage other engineers, writing ship code.
I love where I am, and have no intention to get back in the rat race (sorry).