I spent 4,000 hours memorizing Excel at Morgan Stanley.
40 hours a week. 100 weeks. As an analyst, you were basically an Excel monkey.
I loved my team but the path to doing the interesting work ran through one bottleneck: how well you could build a model.
If you weren’t the best modeler, you got worse deals. Not because you couldn’t think strategically. Because you couldn’t format a comp table fast enough.
A managing director told me during my internship: “Chad, you’d be an amazing MD in the way you think and plan. But right now you need to humble yourself and just focus on your Excel skills.”
The early levels were gatekeeping the higher ones. And the early levels stopped mattering once you got there.
This past weekend I rebuilt my entire financial model using AI. Took hours, not days. 4,000 hours of memorized shortcuts, irrelevant overnight.
Education has the same bottleneck.
Students spend years proving they can memorize content that has nothing to do with actual thinking.
The rote work gates the meaningful work…and now AI is making the rote work obsolete in both places. The skills that can’t be automated are the ones we never learned how to measure: judgment, reasoning, decision-making under pressure.
That’s what we build our fully adaptive digital simulations for.
Stop measuring what AI can already do. Start measuring what only humans can.
DM me a course. We’ll hop on a quick call and within 48 hours I’ll build a simulation for you that measures what no spreadsheet ever could. Spots are limited.