Why I deleted what I built
The week my system passed every test, I decided to replace it.
Work and writing, since 2019
At first I solved problems with what I was good at. Later I learned to build things other people could use without me.1
Now
- Operations and business analyst intern at JuicyBite
- Finance and Math at NYU Stern, class of 2028
- McKinsey, summer 2027
11 places so far
See the workEach book is a place I've worked, oldest on the left. The thicker the spine, the more I have to say about it. The one leaning at the end hasn't happened yet.
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It started with showing someone around New York
No title and no pay, and three people's paths changed anyway.
Building systems at a company I cold-emailed
The hard part of automation is the exceptions, not the normal path.
Branding a restaurant with no storefront
In delivery, the customer sees one photo in an app. That is the whole storefront.
Cooking at the booth
People don't want to walk into a booth. So the tasting counter went to the aisle.
About
More about meI grew up in Seoul and moved to the UK on my own at 15 for boarding school, where I finished a four-year course in three.
I spent a gap year building a tutoring business and the platform behind it, and interning at KASA, a real estate investment platform.