Chinese may be the world's best manufacturers but it just creates pollution and little profit. SV maybe create pointless apps but it makes loads more money.
I see two different problems - closure of the recent experiences and whether you should get back to "same energy of my younger self". You're likely older and wiser now, such people do different things to when they were younger, embrace it.
In my career I have tried hard to avoid technical debt, I've learnt the project architecture before writing much code, I've refactored a lot of stuff, kept dependencies up to date, written loads of tests. As such I've stayed in jobs 4-8 years and become invaluable to each one.
However its been terrible for my career. In job interviews people wonder what I've achieved because it really is difficult to prove how you can design and write code. The guys who spend a year or two sh**ing all over the code base as they knock out new features really are doing the right thing. Managers dont care about tech debt, they just want new features.
I'm just surprised that in 2021 BigQuery isn't more popular. I thought it would be top 10 by now, I moved to GCP because of it but feel like I'm the only one.
I'd love to know if you write lots of code and/or have to maintain other people's hugely templated code. I find if you have to do lots of the second you quickly stop writing it.
I just gave up using a custom domain - do you really need it? Sure it was cool 10 years ago but no one really cares any more, but the main reason I gave up because I was worried someone would hijack the domain to take my 2fa emails. One less thing to worry about.
How many jobs is normal to consider at a time? I saw he had 50ish in 2 weeks which is an awful lot for senior jobs. Even as an IC I can only really handle a fraction of that. Should I be applying for 100 roles/month? I'm not sure what is normal or a good strategy.
I took a look and on linkedin it isn't sure where you are and you haven't listed any technologies. If you put in go-lang, c, Python, linux, Docker, containers that'll make you searchable. If you want remote jobs for US companies say so.