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Updated 7 May 2024. _{^{(Now page inspired by Derek Sivers)}}

Last year I attended a 1-week intensive summer school related to my research interests in economic simulation. My obsession with economic simulation has slowly grown over the last three years and since the beginning of last year I was able to dedicate much more time to building the neccessary skillset. I've taken classes across all areas of economics (and some CS classes like Machine Learning) at the University of Neuchatel. Economic Simulation is a long-term project that I expect to spend at least the next 10-20 years working on.

I'm still working at the Bern University of Applied Science. Last week I taught the 7th edition of a public speaking course in the Master of Design with Ferdinand Vogler at the BFH Fine Arts School. I'm also in the middle of teaching the 5th edition of the Power BI Bootcamp short course at the Business School. Last Autumn, I again taught modules in 2 courses of the Master in Digital Business Administration: Enabling Technologies (I teach no-code, 4th edition) and Emerging Technologies (I teach innovation, 3rd edition). In both courses I facilitated a hands-on day where students built digital technology prototypes.

Ongoing is my work as a Data Steward for the BFH helping drive open science through open research data. We met up with colleagues from around Switzerland last year. I've also become a bit of a Power BI expert in the university and am working on a marketing management dashboard for internal use, and running internal trainings and workshops to help spread those skills and my experience.

I'm still a volunteer firefighter (monthly trainings) and I'm still playing a lot with generative AI tools like MidJourney and ChatGPT. On the side I'm reading more sci-fi, working out more, and learning French on Duolingo. I also think and talk a lot about AGI, David Deutsch's theories of knowledge and effective methods of teaching and learning.