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  I barely attended university.  At 18, I touched a computer seriously for the first time, and for the next two years, I was consumed by personal projects. Looking back now, I realize what drove me was fear.  I was fiercely competitive, vain, and constantly aggressive.  I obsessed over scores—and, for better or worse, I had the ability to achieve them.  I fixated on technology and capitalism as a way to justify my aggression. At 18, the crypto media outlet I founded took off, earning me more money than I could have imagined at my age.  At 19, I joined a startup as a founding member, and within a year it was acquired by a publicly listed company. Yet, despite the praise from others, I couldn’t praise myself.  Every time an investor told me they wanted to invest, a hollow pit opened in my stomach.  All I could do was raise my “score” in the form of money, and that realization felt suffocating. I was vaguely afraid of people.  Believing ...