This resonates with me. Every bit of unhappiness I've felt in my career so far has been caused by one or more bad managers. The main issue for me has been the f

This resonates with me. Every bit of unhappiness I've felt in my career so far has been caused by one or more bad managers. The main issue for me has been the final point about "Imposed artificial limitations" - I cannot count the number of times that I've been forced to use an inefficient tool or do something in a sub-optimal or downright incorrect way (knowing that it would have to be re-written later) by a bad manager... In some companies, it was a daily occurrence; that's why I never stayed at a single company for longer than 2 years. It's almost impossible to find a company that lets me implement things correctly. Thankfully, nobody could constrain me in my open source work. I (with the help of community members) built: - SocketCluster (https://socketcluster.io/ https://socketcluster.io/): A distributed pub/sub framework. - Capitalisk (https://capitalisk.com/ https://capitalisk.com/): A lightweight quantum-resistant blockchain which is less than 5K lines of code. - LDEX (https://ldex.trading/ https://ldex.trading/): A deterministic decentralized exchange (DEX) which can work with many different blockchain protocols. It's less than 4K lines of code in total and only has 3 small third-party dependencies (including sub-dependencies).