Accepted Student Days

I spent the last week on vacation with my daughter, visiting accepted student days at Michigan and Maryland.

I did not open Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor once. This space is moving so quickly that even a short break can create the sense that you are falling behind. Podcasts and articles are not a substitute for hands-on time.

Real learning happens while building with these tools. In the prompting, debugging, refining, shipping, and seeing where the models actually help and where they do not.

For product and technology leaders, that kind of hands-on exposure is becoming less optional by the day.