I am a full-stack product engineer and former founder with over 9 years of start up experience. I have been as early as #1 at a SaaS startup that raised a series B and was acquired, built and sold my own consumer application, and started my own startup which I am currently winding down.
I am currently looking to join an early stage startup where I can make a significant impact on the product side.
The statement "my options on who will hire me are kind of limited" is a bit misleading. Limited compared to whom? Your options are abundant compared to most people.
It sounds like you are waiting on a fantasy position that has both interesting work and pays at least the same as your current position, which you have 13 years of experience in. That's not usually how life works. There are trade-offs.
If you want to do a different type of work that you don't have any professional experience in, you are going to have to take a pay cut. As you mentioned, you're fortunate to be making 3x what you need. It's up to you whether it's worth "only" making 2x what you need in order to do work you find more engaging.
This is not a unique circumstance. People make this trade-off all the time. Maybe talk to some people who did.
> It sounds like you are waiting on a fantasy position that has both interesting work and pays at least the same as your current position, which you have 13 years of experience in. That's not usually how life works. There are trade-offs.
I mean this with all the respect in the world, but no shit. That's what I'm frustrated about. I feel like the entire thing I wrote was specifically because I am aware of these tradeoff. Just because the tradeoffs exist doesn't mean I have to like them.
I know that my dream job doesn't really exist, at least not in numbers large enough to even bother considering, and I'm not naive enough to really think that pivoting to another career will suddenly solve all my problems and frustrations.
I definitely understand the optimization of keyboards especially for certain types of work such as programming — It's what I spend 90% of my time doing. But I would argue that there are just as many use cases where a mouse is actually faster than using keyboard with shortcuts. Design work would be one of those examples, and it's not a small industry.
I guess what I feel is missing is "Keychron for mice". Keychron took the pretty niche mechanical keyboard market which was mostly targeted towards gamers or extreme optimizers and tailored it for productivity with their default macOS compatibility. I doubt the Logitech MX Mechanical keyboard would exist if Keychron didn't exist, which I take as a sign of their success.
It might be suitable and it's on my radar along with maybe two other mice, but from my understanding Razer Synapse 3.0 isn't supported on macOS, my primary OS for productivity. I know that there is third-party software that I can use so I may end up still getting the Naga.
Using third-party software isn't that big of a deal and is not uncommon in the keyboard world. I suppose what's most surprising to me is the lack of discourse and community around on the topic.
I think probably not. The majority of people aren't looking to live on the home row and optimize every key stroke. The arrow keys are a lot more intuitive than HJKL.
The caps lock key on the other hand... I would argue should definitely be backspace.
cmd+shift+v -> unformatted paste
cmd+shift+p -> command palette
I use Karabiner and use right_command+v for the clipboard launcher without interfering with the other apps.