Is your main goal to retire? If you want to build big things, in most cases you can't work alone. In a big team, everyone plays a part. Call them a "cog" if

Is your main goal to retire? If you want to build big things, in most cases you can't work alone. In a big team, everyone plays a part. Call them a "cog" if you want. And, sometimes the specialization that happens in big teams allows people (err...cogs) to really push the state of the art by engaging one hard problem for a long time.