i grew up in bozeman and went to bozeman high school, where speech and debate made argument quality feel like a real craft instead of a school exercise.
soccer, singing, and public speaking all ended up training the same muscle for me: stay composed, listen closely, and make the next move feel natural.
i started college at cu boulder's leeds school of business, then moved to claremont mckenna for economics and the financial economics sequence.
openai devday pulled a lot of the thread together for me: agents, context, tools, and the question of what actually becomes useful when models can work inside real workflows.
most of what i build now sits around private ai context, prediction and market systems, reusable agent workflows, and small products that expose whether an idea survives production.