Anybody taken a conscious mini-retirement (not just unemployed laying around)? What did you do? What were the benefits? Link to Medium post?
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Sabbatical leave! Not uncommon in other industries. Bit more unusual in tech but shouldn't be.
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See a lot of tech startups arise from these, when experienced devs step away from office work to focus on independent R&D.
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i took 5 months off. Traveled and learned some heavy math things that deepened my work knowledge and read shakespeare and traveled to japan
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now i think of each second at work having one millisecond of retirement mixed in
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(1/2) 6 months to focus fully on my 5top priority life areas (with scale, rating and plan for each). One of my best decision/investment ever
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Me. Did various fun projects. Figured out what I liked doing (and new things I'm good at). Found co-founders+startup+new interests.
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To rephrase, I spent 2ish years optimizing solely for interestingness completely ignoring income. Unsurprisingly, found new interests.
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