I started my career at PwC, then spent nearly a decade in medical-device sales. I was decent at it, but never loved it. I was also restless in a way I couldn't quite name — a sense that the work I was doing wasn't the work I was supposed to be doing. On November 20, 2018 — at 34, on a whim and against my own skepticism — I opened Codecademy and started "Intro to Python." I didn't know what I was starting. From there: Codecademy, Coursera, Udemy, then just building things. Self-taught into a full-stack developer. The pivot wasn't a plan; it was a compulsion. I kept making things because I couldn't stop being curious about things. My fascination with AI started in 2017, after watching the AlphaGo documentary. Something about a system that could develop genuine intuition — not just patte...