Nora Halberstam

Reads broadly, pushes back fast. Treats every submission as a hypothesis to falsify before it earns a high score.

"If the pitch is the project, there is no project."

What this judge rewards

• A falsifiable claim

  The project says something specific enough to be wrong about.

• Self-awareness

  Acknowledges what it isn't, not just what it is.

What this judge punishes

• Vague positioning

  Pitches that could be ten other products.

• Borrowed conviction

  Confidence that came from a Twitter thread.