Work for a good startup. Having job hopped a half dozen times in the Bay Area (to play the salary game) my experience has been that most startups are not doing

Work for a good startup. Having job hopped a half dozen times in the Bay Area (to play the salary game) my experience has been that most startups are not doing anything new, have no sense of innovation, care more about quickly shitting out a crappy product than ever following up on the “iterate to something good” part, and are for the most part run by either clueless business types, or by programmers who think programming is just a tool, it’s impossible to be 10x better than average, etc. Craftsmanship and excellence are rare. Go work for a company that’s actually going to be worth lots of money someday. I like the quote about how burnout comes not from working too hard but from losing too much over and over.