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Jul
For a long time, Shailendra Aswal’s career looked exactly the way success is expected to look. Over more than twenty-five years, he built his professional life across technology, consulting, and innovation, taking on leadership roles at companies such as Yahoo, [24]7.ai, and Uber. It was a career marked by scale, responsibility, and the kind of momentum that signals progress from the outside. But there was one pattern in his journey that often surprised people. At different points, he chose to step away from established corporate roles, spend time doing something completely different, and then return. To others, it seemed unusual.…