I retired a few years ago on my savings, but I won the lottery as an early Airbnb employee (and I only recently cashed out). I've worked for several high-flying

I retired a few years ago on my savings, but I won the lottery as an early Airbnb employee (and I only recently cashed out). I've worked for several high-flying SV startups, and one BigCo, and startup multiple of my own startups (which all failed). I'm around 35 y/o now. I really grew to despise the whole of SV culture, the various get rich quick schemes based on screwing your customers, and capitalism is general. These days my only ambition is to farm on my homestead/commune, live as cheaply as possible, and avoid consumerism as much as I can. I still love working on software, am pretty active on various open source projects, am writing another book, but I don't feed the beast anymore. Retirement is great and you shouldn't let anyone talk you out of it. The guys at the top of the pyramid aren't working very hard, so why should you? To quote Kurt Vonnegut: "I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."