Sten Tamkivi's Seikatsu Blog Archive

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 6 (26), Winter quarter The picture reflects the exact view I have from where I’m sitting posting this.

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 5 (25), Winter quarter This midterm week was quite light for classwork – as my elective set happened to have no actual midterm exams.

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 4 (24), Winter quarter The relative (& temporary, I’m sure) breather on reading volume this week left some much awaited time to deal with things out of the classroom: we’ve gotten over the home stretch in our core mark…

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 3 (23), Winter quarter A large group of Sloan Fellows honoured Martin Luther King Jr on his day by driving up to Lake Tahoe.

Spent an inspiring day at The Intersection Event at Googleplex.

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 2 (22), Winter quarter I think we’re getting back in the rhythm here.

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 1 (21), Winter quarter The pace of the new year has been just mindblowing, and not just compared to the Christmas break down time but to almost any of the school weeks from previous quarters.

Several entrepreneurship-related classes at Stanford refer to a simple conceptual framework developed by Professor William A.

As the Sloan year has passed the equator, I’ve signed up for the following classes kicking off next week.

The most surprisingly resonating fiction book I’ve read in a while inspired a little more experimentally formatted review: http://sten.tamkivi.com/penumbra24.html

This page is a table of contents for all the blog posts on Sten’s life as a Sloan Fellow as part of Stanford Sloan program (now called MSx) at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

I picked up The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup by Noam Wasserman after he spoke about it in the ETL speaker series at Stanford back in November (see my study notes of that week here).

Less than three months have passed since my summary post on Summer quarter.

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 8-10 (18-20), Autumn quarter Not to worry, despite of the three week scope in title this is not a monster-length post.

The below are reading notes of some good old truths, new aha-s and pro tips from a pretty good concise communications guidebook called As We Speak: How to Make Your Point and Make it Stick by Peter Meyers and Shann Nix.

As I was elected to be the Sloan Fellows representative to our school’s newspaper The GSB Reporter for this year and even though I have (see Herbert’s reflection on organizing our flash mob) and will be recruiting classmates to do most of the writing, I d…

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 7 (17), Autumn quarter This week will go down in history as the one that finally saw the portfolio of profiles of every single Fellow of the Stanford Sloans class of 2013 hit the public interwebs.

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 5-6 (15-16), Autumn quarter This post consolidates my notes from two weeks instead of a normal one, yet will be a bit more concise than usual too, for a few reasons: I was down with flu for several days and had to miss…

The President of Republic of Estonia, Toomas Henrik Ilves has had a Twitter account, @IlvesToomas since May 2012.

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 4, Autumn quarter Covered in this issue: How Confucius helps the Chinese to consume free MP3s How a CEO is stuck between the Board and his team in a complex matrix of conflicting loyalties How a side-effect of managing…

Whenever you are planning to take your startup or a mature company to a new market, planning to export your products there or seeking to open a new office to plug into local talent pool, you always know it will somehow be different than back home.

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 3, Autumn quarter The highlight of this week was of course the Friday our Sloan class owned the GSB courtyard with our little dance act.

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 2, Autumn quarter Covered in this issue: Rational decision making.

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 1, Autumn quarter The gearshift to the fall quarter was quite a big one.

To celebrate the kickoff of Autumn Quarter this week, this is a little overview of what lays ahead in my calendar: Core classes: STRAMGT 259 – Generative Leadership by Klein STRAMGT 279 – Global Strategic Management by Roberts OB 278 – Organizational Beha…

With our Class of 2013 Stanford Sloan program went from 10 to full 12 months for the first time by introducing the 2-month Summer quarter.

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 9, Summer quarter done Pages assigned for reading: who cares now?

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 8, Summer quarter Pages assigned for reading: ~135 This was also a week of Strategy Beyond Markets exam (24 hours to answer ~10 questions in “hopefully less than” 3 hours and 16 pages; took me 5h and 10 pages -we’ll se…

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 7, Summer quarter Pages assigned for reading: only 108!

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 6, Summer quarter Pages assigned for reading: 157 POLECON239 – Strategy Beyond Markets (prof Jha) Tort anecdotes: The famous 1992 case where jury awarded $2.7M to Stella Riebeck who was burned by McDonald’s coffee she…

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 5, Summer quarter Pages assigned for reading: 339 MGTECON209 – Statistics & Economics (prof Oyer) 4/5 cars sold in China in 2011 were to first time buyers.

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 4, Summer quarter Pages assigned for reading: 121 (but quite a few written assignment deadlines) POLECON239 – Strategy Beyond Markets (prof Jha) US Antitrust regulation (from Baron textbook) Protecting competition does…

Now this post my dear classmates will find quite useless, but some friends outside have noted it should have preceded all those random study notes.

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 3, Summer quarter Note: as per feedback of longer notes (such as last week) becoming a bit random to read linearly, trying to group them by class this time.

Stanford GSB Sloan Study Notes, Week 2, Summer quarter Pages assigned for reading: 310 Reminder: think of normals not in their absolute value, but as “how many standard deviations from mean” (Statistics) After going through the theory and visualisations b…

Now with first week of classes behind us and the pile of week 2 reading still looking daunting on Sunday night despite the efforts of the day, I am stuck with the question if and how I want to keep any notes on what we learn here.

I considered writing a “how to” kind of a post for grad students arriving to Stanford for the first time, but got lucky – my GSB Sloan 2013 classmate Herbert already did just that here.

Mai lõpus, Reformierakonna rahastamisskandaalide alguskeerises, kui lehetoimetustesse olid juba jõudnud värsked materjalid selle kohta, “kes selle asja taga siis ikkagi täpselt uut parteid teevad” (loe ühte, kahjuks valet vastust nt siit), toimus Twitteris

Spent the last weekend on Stanford campus for an orientation event ahead of the major transition back to school that I announced about two months ago.

Näpud sügelesid ühe viimasel ajal sagedasti silma torkava sildistamise pärast, kus ühiskonda üritatakse jagada kaheks: Tegijad ja Haibimehed.

Lugesin Raivo Heina laialt levivat blogipostitust ja kuigi sellega on lihtne suures osas nõus olla, tuli paar põlvenõksatust siiski.

Paar nädalat tagasi käisid meil kontoris külalised Õpetajate lehest.

Jätkuks eilsele postitusele, toon Teema 2012 ettepanekute paketist kommenteerimiseks ja aruteluks välja veel teise mulle südamelähedase mure: kuidas teha nii, et Eestis üha enam ajudega töötajatest ei oleks mitte pelgalt töövõtjad, vaid omanikena suuremad…

Teenusmajanduse Koda avaldas täna oma juba iga-aastaseks traditsiooniks saanud paketi Teema2012, mis käsitleb komplekti valupunkte, mida teenuste-valdkonna ettevõtjad näevad takistusena Eesti elu- ja majanduskeskkonna suurema avatuse teel.

Pausing one’s active career to return to school is a step outside of comfort zone.

Eelmisel nädalal ACTA-vestlustest tõukunud mõttearendusest, et selle asemel, et ühe välislepingu osas must-valgelt vaielda ja tsementeerida seisukohti ühel või teisel pool barrikaade ja rindejoont, võiks hoopis pead kokku panna ja maha kirjutada, millised…

Sõber Toivo püstitas sellel nädalal ACTA-teemaliste arutelude lainel oma Facebooki-seinale sellise küsimuse: Toivo Annus: Mõni leimab internetis, mõni teine Riigikogu kõnepuldist.

I’ve been a long time opponent of anonymous, unauthenticated comments fire-hosed into mainstream online media decidedly without editorial review.

Pretty much exactly 12 months ago I made my first angel investment ever in a company that makes physical things.

It’s been almost two weeks since I attended a bunch of sessions and some social events around the annual Singularity Summit, held by Singularity Institute, this time in New York.