If you had ten million dollars, what would you spend it on?
For what it's worth, if I had $10 million, I currently think I'd spend it as follows:
1. Developing and bringing to market my dream open, general-purpose pocket computer specifically for blind people: https://toot.cafe/@matt/116788125409771800
2. If there's enough left, buying the ETI-Eloquence text-to-speech engine from whoever owns it now and open-sourcing it.
That said, sure, I have certainly entertained the idea of retiring and working on open source, particularly on days when work is frustrating or overwhelming.
But if the goal is "recreate Sandstorm", I do believe my current work on Cloudflare OS[0] is much more likely to succeed at that than anything I could reasonably accomplish independently.
More broadly, at the moment it feels like my position at Cloudflare puts me in the middle of something really important. There isn't anywhere else where I would have more influence over the AI revolution.
You’re proving my point.
No wonder you deployed all of those debate tactics.
How about a change of mindset first?