Career Update - Life After Stepping Down (opens in new tab)

Last October to step down from my role as a global executive in the cybersecurity industry. The last 8 months have gone by in a flash, so I wanted to write a little update on how it's going. Do I regret the decision? Was it the right thing to do? Or have I screwed up the career I've spent 25 years building? The TL;DR is that I'm far happier now than I was back in October. I've battled with whether this was a failure, and I decided that , it was all just my ego. I've gone from working a ~60-70...