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A personal reflection on budgeting, delayed gratification, and why financial stability is less about income and more about priorities.
A personal reflection on the “smart kid” trap, identity, and why intelligence alone is a terrible foundation for happiness.
After those two stories, I’m left with two broader insights — about responsibility, freedom, conflict, and why aggression almost never makes sense.
This is the promised second part — a story not about conflict, but about reclaiming control over a trauma I carried for years. To do it, I had to temporarily adopt a worldview with a very wild moral compass — not because I believe it, but because it helped me finally forgive what once terrified me.
I’ve started documenting my small “daily victories” — not because they’re heroic, but because they show what self-trust and self-love can grow into. Here’s one that happened on a morning flight to Prague, and why what looked like a conflict… wasn’t one at all.
I know many senior candidates hate take-home assignments — but I genuinely love them. Not because they’re “fair” or “efficient,” but because they reveal far more about a role, a team, and a company than any interview ever could.