🪴 Your "Messy" Background Is Your Edge

[FREE] Your non-traditional path is your hidden advantage

First deep dive of 2026, yay!

The last couple of months have been... let's say chaotic. Wait — chaotic? I don’t mean disordered and confusing.

The latter definition seems closer to what I’ve been trying to say. The property of a system whose behaviour is so unpredictable, as to appear random.

Emphasis on random. That’s the word.

I'll use chaos interchangeably with randomness, timing, luck, and other hidden constraints. Because that's the problem that made me write this dive.

What would my day today look like if I'd made one less misstep last year? Would anything change? Would the butterfly effect screw me over?

People keep assuming outcomes come from variety of shaping factors: skill, planning, intelligence, grit. This leaves this often overlooked variable: chaos.

It affects absolutely everything.

Where you were born. How your brain functions. What personalities your closest people had growing up. What your early ambitions became and how you chose to execute them.

If you took two random p…