I just think it's interesting that when I was at a major portal/search company, it seemed like one bigwig or another would leave "to spend more time with my family" every month or two. I mean, we were getting our ass kicked; it seemed like every time we got a new head of X, they were going to "turn things around" - so it makes total sense that high-level heads would be rolling when things failed to turn around, but we'd all roll our eyes when we got these emails.<p>I don't want to take away from the validity of spending more time with your family or what have you; I prefer working part-time myself, when I can make it happen.<p>This looks way more sincere and well-written than most such notes; The notes we got at this company usually looked like they were written by an HR person. this reads like the man wrote it himself rather than handing it off to some HR flack, and it certainly <i>feels</i> true. It's well written, and after reading it, I think better of him, and really, even if he is being pushed out, there's no shame in leaving gracefully.