Long before playlists, streaming, or skipping tracks, I learned how to listen—really listen—one album side at a time. And that habit shaped far more than my musical taste.
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Some childhood stories are about medals won, records broken, and trophies displayed proudly on the shelf. Mine are about trying—repeatedly—and quitting just as repeatedly. I was never particularly athletic, and despite a competitive streak that could have powered a small city, my body stubbornly refused to cooperate with my ambitions.
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Lego wasn’t just a childhood obsession. It was leadership training in disguise. Those multi-hour sessions of building, breaking, rebuilding, and explaining taught me to love the iterative process, respect the power of structure, and—yes—recognize when my own rules limit creativity.
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The Commodore 64 is long gone, replaced by devices millions of times more powerful. But the lesson it taught me remains intact: build things that matter, for people who matter, with just enough technology to get the job done.
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Some childhood experiences leave a gentle imprint. Others detonate quietly under the surface and alter the entire trajectory of a life. My year in the United States at age seventeen did exactly that—transforming me in ways I didn’t recognize at the time but rely on every single day.
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Some childhood memories fade into pleasant background noise. Others remain vivid because they mark the first moment you realized you could influence the world around you. My first taste of advocacy came in the form of a schoolyard—specifically, the part of it that suddenly disappeared.
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Because the solution might not be another marketing campaign or quota push. It might be time to introduce experienced leadership—fractionally or otherwise—to build the structure your best people deserve.
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Some childhood passions shape your identity more quietly than others. Mine came with the faint smell of melting solder and a workbench scattered with resistors, capacitors, and wires that always seemed just a little too short. Those early experiments didn’t turn me into an engineer—but they left me with a lifelong appreciation for building things that actually work.
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Some lessons arrive wrapped in success. Others show up as unfinished projects sitting on a workshop table, humming with ambition but lacking the pieces to move. This story is about the latter—and why it has shaped how I operate as a business leader to this day.
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Some childhoods are measured in school years or summer vacations. Mine could just as easily be measured in kilometers pedaled. My bike was my freedom machine—reliable, fast, and always in some state of disrepair.
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