I'm not ready to say a lot about how I solved this problem other than: I quit. My job was killing me. If you looked at it from the outside, you would have sa

I'm not ready to say a lot about how I solved this problem other than: I quit. My job was killing me. If you looked at it from the outside, you would have said I should be perfectly happy: great pay, bonuses, respect at work. But seriously: I was unhappy with the endless meetings, bureaucracy, and a culture that didn't value creativity and passion for building really good software. I'm still working all this out. I'm independent and learning a lot of great stuff that I've wanted to learn for years. I'm building some products that I hope will take off. But even if those fail in the sense that I don't make enough to live on, I know I will succeed in a bigger sense: I will find a place to work that has great people and values building really good software that makes people's lives better. Why am I so confident about that? For the first time in years, I feel alive and full of curiosity and interest in the world.