Loneliness and Connection

A working understanding of cybersecurity — how attackers operate, how defenders push back, and the moving parts of every modern security program. The trunk gives you the throughline from threat model to defense to response; clusters dive into cryptography, network defense, web application security, secure coding, penetration testing, incident response, cloud security, and governance.

A working understanding of game theory — the study of how rational agents make decisions when outcomes depend on each other's choices. The trunk gives you the core solution concepts and vocabulary; clusters dive into auctions, bargaining, evolutionary games, mechanism design, and where the rational-actor model fails.

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.

How real estate actually works — as an asset class and as a transaction. The trunk covers ownership and title, mortgages and leverage, valuation, the buy/sell process, rentals and landlording, taxes, development, and REITs; clusters go deep on the math and mechanics.

Build the universal mental model that every database is implemented against — the relational model, schemas and keys, indexes, transactions, concurrency, PostgreSQL architecture, production operations, modeling patterns, and the modern data ecosystem (NoSQL, distributed SQL, warehouses, vectors, streaming).

A comprehensive, 3-pillar curriculum that builds durable understanding of artificial intelligence and machine learning — from the mathematical foundations and classical algorithms, through modern deep learning architectures, to the societal implications of deploying AI in the real world. Emphasizes timeless principles over transient tools so knowledge remains valuable as the field evolves.