Category Archives: MIT SDM

Stress, sickness, productivity

The summer semester has been a bit stressful so far — supply chain taking six to nine hours a week just for class has left me with little time to think or breathe, but luckily that ends next week.  As … Continue reading

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Night at the Boston Pops

One of the SDM 09s sent out a note to everyone mentioning that MIT was putting on a small conference to celebrate the forty years since Apollo 11 landed on the moon. The closing little event was a concert put … Continue reading

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Spring Semester Wrap-up

My original intent was to do a post for each course from the spring, but since summer classes have now started, I don’t see that happening. So I’ll try to do a quicker post with all of them. I ended … Continue reading

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Semester Wrap-up: Game Theory at HKS

My game theory class at HKS wrapped up with a final exam a little more than a week ago after a two week reading period. Taking a class at HKS was pretty different from an MIT class. For one thing, … Continue reading

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Trying to get rolling on my thesis

Now that I’m over halfway through the SDM program, it’s definitely time for me to get beyond just thinking about thesis topics and actually hunting for a thesis advisor and doing some serious background reading. And thus I finally had … Continue reading

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Semester is barreling along

Three weeks in and the semester is certainly barreling along at full speed. At this point, I think I’ve had enough sessions of each class to be able to have an actual opinion about them. System Optimization – this is … Continue reading

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Spring classes continued

I had the first session of my second (of three) classes today. The class is Evolution to Web 3.0 an the Impact on Business 3.0. While the title is somewhat chuckle worthy it actually seems like it should be a … Continue reading

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Spring classes

The spring semester for me started today since I’m taking a class at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.  The class that I’m taking is Game Theory with Applications to Strategic Decision Making.  I’ve had an interest in game … Continue reading

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Rumours of my death are (largely) unfounded

The rumours of my death are largely unfounded.  I’ve just been either busy working or trying to relax while not on a computer since this is as much of a “break” as I get. I have, though, done various updates … Continue reading

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Winter cycling, NC cycling and a year-end wrap-up

Some people think that the winter is a significant off-season for cyclists especially in New England with the snow and cold. But that's about as far from the truth as you can get as it's important to keep up aerobic … Continue reading

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