He turns 40 on February 5 (at least according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Fitzpatrick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Fitzpatrick ). I wonder if th

He turns 40 on February 5 (at least according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Fitzpatrick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Fitzpatrick ). I wonder if that was a factor in his decision. He could predict his path at Google and wants to chart his own course again. from his update: "When I first joined Google it was a chaotic first couple years while I learned Google's internal codebase, build system, a bunch of new languages, Borg, Bigtable, etc. Then I joined Android it was fun/learning chaos again. Go was the same when I joined and it was a new, fast-moving experiment. Now Go is very popular, stable and, while there's a lot to do, things--often necessarily--move pretty slowly. Moving slowly is fine, and hyper-specializing in small corners of Go makes sense at scale (few percent improvements add up!), but I want to build something new again. I don't want to get stuck in a comfortable rut. (And Google certainly is comfortable, except for open floor plans.) What next? TBA. But building something new."