I can't get over the way interviewees are treated. I have had several run-ins with existential dread and realized that the first X years of sacrificing my life to FAANG company gave me enough money to retire for close to a decade (well, based on my burn rate and what the stock is doing, it's unbounded at this point). It's going to really be something when I start interviewing and openly scoff at these types of questions.

My GitHub speaks for itself, I don't really plan on justifying my time away from formal employment other than "sorry, I wanted to enjoy life while my body and mind were working at near peak rather than waiting another 30 years to avoid making others around me uncomfortable". Because god knows people get weird about hearing how long I've been happily unemployed. I've said it here before and it's wiiiiildly unpopular but a decade of tech salary goes *a very, very long way* if you're not on the consumer-capitalist treadmill.