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From Breaking Things to Building Them: My Journey from a Curious Kid to a self taught CTO
When I was 12 years old, I wasn’t thinking about school or the future—I was just obsessed with figuring things out. I would take apart toys, radios, and any piece of hardware I could find, just to see how they worked. Sometimes I’d put them back together. Other times, they stayed in pieces forever. But that process—breaking things, experimenting, learning from mistakes—was the most exciting thing in the world to me.
When I was 12 years old, I wasn’t thinking about school or the future—I was just obsessed with figuring things out.
I would take apart toys, radios, and any piece of hardware I could find, just to see how they worked. Sometimes I’d put them back together. Other times, they stayed in pieces forever. But that process—breaking things, experimenting, learning from mistakes—was the most exciting thing in the world to me.
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