This essay dismantles the idea that a non-linear career path is a series of mistakes. Drawing on a seemingly scattered background—from living in a Buddhist monastery and launching social enterprises in Bogota and Brazil, to paddling the Hunter River and building a tech startup—the piece reframes past "failures" and detours as essential Research and Development. It challenges builders and operators to stop regretting the chapters that didn't go according to plan and instead reclassify them as the exact raw data needed to construct their current iteration of success.

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