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Jessey Jansen

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Efficiency, Improvisation, And The Space Between

Submitted to Contest #334

By the time this trip began, Tanzania was no longer a destination—it was a relationship, one that had already tested my patience, my ethics, and my understanding of what collaboration actually requires. I wasn’t arriving with answers. I was arriving with unfinished work, people I cared about, and a growing suspicion that efficiency, my most trusted tool, might not survive the journey. I used to think efficiency was about speed. Get in. Get out. Don’t miss the flight. Don’t miss the meeting. Don’t miss the point. That illusion usually starts ...

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