Back to School

So, I passed the screening and at the end of May, I start my Executive MBA program at the Quantic School of Business and Technology. Excited as hell!

Why? I'm so glad you asked! 😂

I'll start with a glossary. I like the term “the cost of a wrong decision”. Erroneous decisions here are different from mistakes, which are when you do something wrong out of ignorance. On the contrary, taking a decision means that you believe that you are doing everything right, and only later find yourself drowning in the ocean and draw the sad conclusion that building a submarine out of papier-mâché was not all that smart.

I have been developing software for many years. Let's face it, it's hard to go wrong here. Over the years, the entire industry has come up with a set of tools and concepts that can be easily used and most likely done right. It's like with cars. If you buckle up, install airbags, do not exceed the speed, do not tell yourself "well, this is just 2 glasses of beer, what can go wrong?", most likely, you will survive in a car accident. Of course, there are sad exceptions, with technical debt and stuff, but this does not happen very often, really.

On the other hand, there is a huge area of ​​product, service and people management. And let me use another analogy, it's like smoking a cigarette at 14 (bear with me). When you are 20, chances are you will be fine. But as you get closer to middle age, you start to notice that it becomes more difficult to climb to the 5th floor, and, most likely, by the age of 60 you will not notice anything, because you are dead 💀.

The same applies to non-technical management. There are no unit tests that you can write for every employee in your organization. It is difficult to create a fault-tolerant infrastructure for your market fit. There is no way to back up your product strategy. If you do something wrong, chances are you'll only notice when things go wrong and bam, you're in your 60s with a pipe sticking out of your neck and that's the only way you can breathe.

So this is my main expectation - I want to make the right decisions. I'm fine with making mistakes, but create the right foundation that can hold one or two bricks on the wrong side. And since there is no online bricklaying course, I'm going to get an Executive MBA for that 😊