Anu Muralidharan, Expensify COO, shares her battle with debilitating stress and "scarcity thinking." Despite engineering credentials from BITS Pilani and Cornell, she felt unmotivated until she risked it all by quitting for an unstructured role. She found her "true north" by focusing on quality of work input, not the end result. This shift fueled her to build Expensify's core infrastructure, lead the IPO, and drive AI-led growth, showing how to find soulful fulfillment in tech.