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Inspire the World.


The resignation letter was already written. It had been sitting in my desk drawer for weeks, drafted and redrafted, folded and unfolded, until the paper had worn soft at the creases. I had been carrying it like a secret. Andβ¦

It was September 2024. I was standing backstage at Tasi-Tolu in Dili, the ocean just behind me, and in front of me, a crowd of 600,000 people stretching as far as I could see. The air was electric. The occasion:β¦