.@kimasendorf's darkest moment became his greatest breakthrough. This German artist went offline for three years, worked a soul-crushing job, and fell into such deep depression he became seriously ill—until his 87-year-old therapist with "17 diseases, five of which are deadly" delivered the wake-up call: "What's your problem? I'm still doing my job because this is my passion." Asendorf returned to create the open-source pixel-sorting algorithm that thousands now use.