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Last updated: September 2026
September 2026 — I'm getting my feet grounded in MBA 704 Organizational Behavior. I expected something closer to HR 2.0, but it's turning out to be much more like psychology (considerably more interesting). The accelerated pace means exams and papers arrive almost immediately, so I'm trying to stay ahead rather than chase the coursework. Outside the MBA, I'm still building out my LLMOps and AgentOps setup across two VPSes, slowly assembling my own distributed AI lab. I'm also getting deeper into local inference across text, speech, audio, images, and video, and figuring out where local and cloud AI make sense together. There's another AI project taking shape in the background that I'm deliberately keeping obtuse for now; it'll get its own section when it's ready. And, because apparently I needed another thing to think about, I've developed a side obsession with small-farm business models: what a farm could do today to move beyond merely surviving and actually thrive. If I had unlimited time, money, and resources, I'd probably try to figure the whole thing out. Alas!
build → 2 VPSes · local inference · LLMOps / AgentOps · distributed AI lab
Previously
July 2026 — MBA 705 Organizational Strategy completed. The situation-analysis, SWOT, and STP frameworks from 706 resurfaced through a longer-horizon organizational lens. Study time went into flashcards, self-quizzes, and navigation charts built around active recall rather than re-reading. Build-to-learn energy moved into LLMOps and AgentOps, alongside a separate ongoing research project I wasn't detailing publicly yet.
build → 2 MCP servers · LibreChat (self-hosted) · agentic automation
May 2026 — MBA 706 Marketing Strategy completed. Built CMO Desk (now released as CMO Learning Desk) and SWOT Check Tool (now SWOT Learning Check) as interactive Streamlit learning apps; both shipped and blogged. Finished and released the LBO Value Creation Bridge and Accounting Learning Simulator (formerly dual-perspective accounting simulator), also blogged.
March 2026 — Pre-program self-study focused on the three financial statements, debits and credits, and accrual accounting. Built an LBO value creation bridge and a dual-perspective accounting simulator in Python/Streamlit ahead of the first course.
For my full background and the story behind the pivot, see About.