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A single moment can reroute an entire life. Mine did. What began as a dream fellowship in London became the most painful detour of my life - and eventually the most purposeful. This is a story of how collapse can become creation.

I was making $200k a year with a dream job and a stable life. But every morning, a question echoed: “Is this what I want for the rest of my life?” Learning about the sunk cost fallacy helped me walk away - and it might help you do the same.

When Reshma Saujani saw that computer classrooms barely had any girls, she didn’t complain - she built Girls Who Code. What started with 20 girls in a borrowed conference room has now reached over 600,000 young women worldwide.

Mercor might become one of the decade’s most important AI-infrastructure companies - or another Silicon Valley rocket that burns too fast. But the real story isn’t about billionaires. It’s about a new kind of labor market where humans don’t compete with AI, but train it.