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I am now going to be mean, pardon my early morning attitude: You spent > 10 years at a FAANG and you are burnt out. Oh-kay, if you played the cards even half way right, you have more money in the bank than any three of us, and you can just leave and figure out which one of those (good) ideas you listed you would like to do. Heck, you probably made a lot of good connections there, and could take your (deserved) abbati…
There's lots of cool stuff happening with zero-knowledge proofs at the moment, if you want to look in that direction.
You're going to find workplace politics everywhere. I suggest you make professional communications your next vocation, which will teach you how to master like a ninja all those uncomfortable political behaviors and situations you dislike and turn you into the technology achiever you want to be. Possessing professional communication skills teaches one how to slice through politics with katana sharp language and words.
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> I would drop everything and focus on longevity/medical research if you are not someone who is already trained at this field, it's inefficient to start on your own. You'd be giving up your expertise and productivity in tech, in return for mediocre output in the research. Much better option is to keep working in tech, earn as much money as is feasible, and then funnel the excess funds into companies that _do_ longeti…
> Much better option is to keep working in tech, earn as much money as is feasible, and then funnel the excess funds into companies that _do_ longetivity research. THat's a good idea. But I think an even better strategy would be to start a cryptocurrency hedge fund and later start an associated exchange. This will allow us to maximize the amount of money we earn, so we can have the greatest impact on companies that d…
If you're burnt out, I suggest a proper vacation. You can then do anything from your list of interests.
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Yeah I'm sure everyone can be unemployed for a year straight and live out of their car. That sounds completely reasonable and not absolutely, in any way, privileged or insane.
What's the problem if it's "privileged"? and it's not that insane. Lots of people take one year sabbatical, including students. In my country (France), it's even negotiable with your employer (it's a right if you worked in the company for more than 3 years I believe).
You could use your sabatical to learn F*, Agda or similar.
Easy to then transition to a nice, slow moving and meaningful engineering position.