🕴DIY MBA

Editor’s note: in 2021 I jumped into full steam into this DIY MBA, I ended up only doing it for about 3 months full time before I started working again. I missed working in a team and I suppose lacked the motivation/rigour to go it solo. During these three months and continuing part time I completed about half of the curriculum. I’m still chipping away at it and loving it!

My opinionated “MBA” for the 21st century

  • Including frontier technologies and themes which I believe will have an outsized impact on our century. I want to have a baseline understanding in them (and ideally some hands-on experience) even though they aren’t traditional MBA topics
  • Lower on business theory than a traditional MBA (strategy, leadership, organisational design, marketing, economics), based on my views and prior experience
  • Room for electives which I’ve chosen based on personal interests
  • Learning in public to be accountable, crystalize learnings by writing, and potentially benefitting you, Dear Reader.

Finance & Accounting

~130h

Strategy, Operations, Leadership

~40

Crypto

~75h

AI

~100h

Sustainability

~70h

Biotech

~40h

Design

~30h

Law

~20h

Gettin’ it done

I won’t have a prof, university administration, or $100k sunk cost whipping me into shape, so will rely on you, dear Reader, to keep me accountable!

If I average 25 hours per week focused on this starting from mid-Feb, I should be done around the end of June. I could do more than 25 but there are other projects I want to work on (developing a few product ideas, helping friends with their businesses, investing, etc.)

Narrator: and this wasn’t how it played out… see editor’s note above

I’ll publish my goals and progress, and some of my learnings through blog posts.

I’d also love to have people join me for some courses/readings… 🙂

Follow along:

Thanks for reading, I appreciate any feedback.

I’ll leave you with a meme that’s dear to my heart: