This isn't clickbait... this actually happened to me.

In fact, there have been a lot of crappy things that have happened to me over the past couple of years that I haven't really shared. 

Whether it be for fear of embarrassment or professional compartmentalization ... I've had my share of screw-ups and failures. But I want to share (almost) all of them now.  Looking back on these things now, they're just dots on a map that have gotten me to where I am now. 

Cheesy? 

Sure, but I love being able to string together all the lessons I've learned in an attempt to reverse engineer how I got where I am today.