DROP OUT. BUILD. SURVIVE.
I officially left engineering school just 3 months into my first year. Real clients didn't ask me about Big O notation or greedy algorithms. They just needed their problems solved. So I built. I became a "businessman" who could code—always optimizing for the easiest path to the result because I had no one pushing me to go deeper.
In the age of AI, that worked... until it didn't. Personal issues derailed the momentum. I lost the clients. I lost the agencies. I hit rock bottom. That silence forced me to realize I had drifted from what I actually loved: the technology itself.
Now, I'm rebuilding. But this time, I'm doing it the right way. I'm using this sprint to master the deep engineering I skipped over, rebuild my agencies from scratch, and finally focus on contribution—giving back to the ecosystem that made all this possible.
"No more shortcuts. No more 'easy routes.' Just 180 days of deep work to become the engineer I was always meant to be."