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I'm going to start blogging about FIRE from the other extreme end. I'm a principal engineer making serious dollars, and I'm writing down my playbook. I intend

I'm going to start blogging about FIRE from the other extreme end. I'm a principal engineer making serious dollars, and I'm writing down my playbook. 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.

slumdev 6y ago
Nobody ever made it to the top by groveling, volunteering for scut, and accepting an annual 3% raise.
birdyrooster 6y ago
Would be more boring than the OP, probably a waste of time to even write the brag piece.
- potatoman22 6y ago
  I think it sounds interesting. Do you really like to spend your days trying to bring people down? Is that fulfilling?
lostmsu 6y ago
You should do that. 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.
- mathgladiator 6y ago
  I have been tinkering with it off and on. 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"
- bluGill 6y ago
  I'm not sure what you are interested in, but there is an open source project needing your help to do that. But if you were really serious you would be there several hours a day doing it already. Instead it is just an idea.
- prewett 6y ago
  You might try contacting them, indicating that you are passionate about their project, and would they be interested in hiring you as a 1099 for six months (or 20 hrs/week or whatever) to implement {feature}. I'm beginning to realize that while everyone (workers, businesses) have a fairly one-track assumption of what employment/work would look like, a lot of times businesses are open to non-traditional ideas. A lot of places are fine with part-time if they know they can count on you to get stuff done. PMs seem to value predictability over throughput. Also I think the trend to remote work will help the process of being able work on just a piece of a project. Anyway, you might as well give it a try, see what happens.
HappyTypist 6y ago
+1. I get to be aggressive and do a 100% stocks allocation. Heck, I can even do sensible (I'm talking 1.25x-1.33x) levels of leverage. I get to invest in crypto. I get to borrow a fairly expensive mortgage. Etc. Let's see where I can get to...

slumdev 6y ago

Nobody ever made it to the top by groveling, volunteering for scut, and accepting an annual 3% raise.

birdyrooster 6y ago

Would be more boring than the OP, probably a waste of time to even write the brag piece.

potatoman22 6y ago
I think it sounds interesting. Do you really like to spend your days trying to bring people down? Is that fulfilling?

lostmsu 6y ago

You should do that. 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.

mathgladiator 6y ago
I have been tinkering with it off and on. 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"
bluGill 6y ago
I'm not sure what you are interested in, but there is an open source project needing your help to do that. But if you were really serious you would be there several hours a day doing it already. Instead it is just an idea.
prewett 6y ago
You might try contacting them, indicating that you are passionate about their project, and would they be interested in hiring you as a 1099 for six months (or 20 hrs/week or whatever) to implement {feature}. I'm beginning to realize that while everyone (workers, businesses) have a fairly one-track assumption of what employment/work would look like, a lot of times businesses are open to non-traditional ideas. A lot of places are fine with part-time if they know they can count on you to get stuff done. PMs seem to value predictability over throughput. Also I think the trend to remote work will help the process of being able work on just a piece of a project. Anyway, you might as well give it a try, see what happens.

HappyTypist 6y ago

+1. I get to be aggressive and do a 100% stocks allocation. Heck, I can even do sensible (I'm talking 1.25x-1.33x) levels of leverage. I get to invest in crypto. I get to borrow a fairly expensive mortgage. Etc. Let's see where I can get to...