Volume III · Chapter Two

Labs

Where courses become capability.

A Lab is a piece of real work. It is not simulated, not graded on attendance. Each Lab is scoped so that the student who completes it has produced something they can point to.

I
Build a Budget
Personal balance sheet, income statement, and cash-flow forecast.
II
Create an Investment Plan
Written policy statement, allocation, and rebalancing rules.
III
Launch a Business
From thesis to first customer, documented as it happens.
IV
Deploy a Smart Contract
From specification to verified, audited deployment.
V
Audit a Protocol
Adversarial review of a live system, with a written report.
VI
Build an AI Agent
Retrieval, tools, evaluation, and a defensible use case.
VII
Create a Research Paper
Question, method, evidence, and a defended claim.
VIII
Perform an Economic Analysis
A first-principles reading of a market or a policy.