Goal Setting

A working understanding of how to start, validate, launch, and scale a real business. The trunk walks the founder arc from mindset and customer discovery through business models, MVPs, positioning, operations, sales, fundraising, and leadership. Clusters dive deep into the tactical playbooks behind each act — interview techniques, MVP fidelity, pricing, channels, term sheets, hiring, unit economics.

A working understanding of human history — from the first hominids to the global world we live in now. The trunk walks the throughline most people never got: how civilizations actually emerge, why empires rise and fall, and how the modern world was made. Clusters dive into the cities, classical mind, slave trade, revolutions, world wars, and how historians actually do their job.

A working understanding of how economies actually behave — how scarcity drives choice, how markets allocate resources (and fail to), how money and policy steer the macroeconomy, and how trade, behavior, and institutions shape long-run prosperity. The trunk gives you the throughline a literate citizen needs; clusters dive into elasticity, market failures, consumer/producer theory, monetary and fiscal policy, trade policy, behavioral finance, and economic history.

A working understanding of probability and statistics — how to reason under uncertainty, turn data into claims, and recognize when those claims are honest. The trunk gives you the core vocabulary and the inference pipeline; clusters dive into Bayesian reasoning, frequentist theory, regression, stochastic processes, and experimental design.

The foundation curriculum that prepares you for any university-level math course — calculus, linear algebra, discrete math, statistics. Builds symbolic fluency from variables and equations through functions, polynomials, exponentials, trigonometry, and the proof and set-theory groundwork that modern mathematics rests on.

Legal literacy — how law actually works. The trunk gives you the operating system: where law comes from, how courts and precedent work, contracts, torts, property, criminal vs civil, and constitutional structure. Clusters dive into reading cases, contract mechanics, IP, your rights with police, and the startup legal toolkit.