Thanks - I am indeed discontented with software, though not exactly for those reasons. It's interesting that you think it's a young person's game, that's probab

Thanks - I am indeed discontented with software, though not exactly for those reasons. It's interesting that you think it's a young person's game, that's probably true when you're an employee (at certain companies) but I think founders above 30 are generally known to build better businesses. IIRC one of YC's founding theses was that younger (than 30) people deserve a chance to get funded and prove their worth. I think software, like science, isn't anything like what it was supposed to be. Not in the sense that the world has changed, but more in the personal sense. Playing around with pipettes in your kitchen is a vastly different (and oh so apolitical...) world than the ivory towers of academia. Even so, what I'm actually unhappy with is the idea of being a cog in a machine, however large and impressive the machine may be. It's not about the insignificance of the cog - it's about the unimaginative and inextensible role the cog plays. As someone who has many talents beyond software, I think I'd be able to employ myself more efficiently than any third party could.