I went from helping build the community at deviantart to building a film company that won emmys to helping build digitalocean and somewhere along the way became

I went from helping build the community at deviantart to building a film company that won emmys to helping build digitalocean and somewhere along the way became a practicing alcoholic. I then proceeded to: have my fiancée leave me because I was an insufferable human, lose my startup because I was an incompetent human, and lose my health because I was an out of control human, in the span of 3/4 months. That was very humbling. So was getting sober. I used to believe I was a very very smart guy, now I'm content knowing I'm comfortably average!! :D