Notes on accounting, finance, and systems thinking — shaped by a long career in technology.
While building an accounting simulator to survive my MBA core, I was also quietly building something else — a tool for a topic I won't formally study for another year. Here's why, and here's what it taught me.
What started as a study tool for one MBA student is now a live, open-source app that asks anyone who opens it to think like both an auditor and a CFO — at the same time.
A few sessions with my own simulator showed me it wasn't actually teaching me anything. Here's what was wrong, how I fixed it, and what the process of fixing it revealed about what good learning design actually requires.
I built an accounting simulator before I knew enough to know if I built it right. Here's why that was the point — and what the process of building it taught me that watching lecture videos didn't.