Instead of repeating myself, I&#x27;ll just cite the blog post I wrote about this, and hope the rest of HN doesn&#x27;t mind.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pl.atyp.us&#x2F;2013-10-leaning-out.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pl.atyp.us&#x2F;2013-10-leaning-out.html</a><p>Things have changed only a bit since then.  A couple of years&#x27; worth of still-increasing income have brought me even closer to permanent financial security.  I&#x27;m still pretty unimpressed by where this industry is headed technically, socially, and financially.  I still want to finish one more Big Thing for pay, maybe one more on my own, and then just dabble in whichever smaller projects catch my fancy.  I know, based on the responses to that blog post, that I&#x27;m far from alone.  I suspect that many people reading this will eventually end up in the same place, whether they believe it now or not.