I would start another startup but family does not give approval for this

It would be interesting to see through other’s people prism of reality especially being in deceptive ignorance of present day. From my 90-s I can remember that literally everyone could jump into IT train and nobody want it. Everyone wanted to become financial genius, gain billions and die young)

Then it’s definitely not going to be San Francisco as a scene of unfolding events and I would suggest Chornobyl. And then there is a clear ending of this novel and even fixed date - April, 26, 1986.

Well, now you can start writing about having tech life and emm, not having normal life, that would be horrendous story and uttermost true. You can add a bit of bitterness to that story to make it more attractive