Writing
A quarter-by-quarter record of the Booth journey — courses, competitions, projects built, and the thinking that connects all of it. After each quarter I write a reflection on what shifted.
Courses
This quarter
Two completed quarters at Booth. What has actually shifted — not what I expected to shift, but what I can observe in how I think and operate now.
Read essayThe advice people give about balance at a top MBA program is often optimistic to the point of uselessness. Here is what actually happened.
Read essayThe most valuable shift was not technical. It was learning to frame information systems around decision quality, incentives, and ambiguity.
Read essayAbbi Smith's course taught me to read financial statements the way a detective reads a crime scene — not for what is obvious, but for what the choices reveal about the people who made them.
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This quarter
Adobe case competition finalist who couldn't close. A hackathon win with two prizes out of five categories. A VCIC that didn't clear the first round. First quarter at Booth taught me more from the losses than the wins.
Read essayJeremie Bacon runs a course with no written notes, no PowerPoint, and no case write-ups. It sounds like a gimmick. It is not.
Read essayThe real lesson from Richard Hornbeck's microeconomics course was not supply and demand. It was a discipline for deciding what actually matters at the edge of any decision.
Read essayWhat it looked like to build an evidence-first AI workflow in a domain where confidence without proof is a liability.
Read essayGrounding is not just a technical pattern. It is a stance on how AI should behave when people need to trust what it says.
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