You can pursue both excitement & smaller ideas as well! You can also pickup various other activities that are highly fulfilling, such as teaching (this could be

You can pursue both excitement & smaller ideas as well! You can also pickup various other activities that are highly fulfilling, such as teaching (this could be mentoring juniors or teaching tech to college kids) You could independently pursue smaller ideas that would lead to a greater fulfillment in life. That being said, you can be entrepreneurial within big tech companies & run pilots for self made projects (gmail was created this way).