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  • June 1, 2023

    What We Need Libraries For

    I like to think of future libraries as places where we go to be inspired and surprised.


  • May 25, 2023

    Sundar Pichai in da House : Google’s CEO on AI, the Digital Divide and the Future of Robotics

    His soft spoken reflectiveness feels about as far away from your typical tech-bro as is possible to imagine.


  • May 24, 2023

    Atomic Swing : A Brief History of the Shifting Swedish Nuclear Policy

    Public discourse is swinging back into favouring nuclear power, but this time there’s a visionary mismatch between politicians and scientists.


  • May 17, 2023

    Aspects of Fashion That Never Crossed My Mind

    Representational aesthetics is all about what stories we’re trying to tell about ourselves.


  • May 14, 2023

    Ignite, Launch, Dock : a Hitchhikers Guide to the Space Industry

    Space as a vertical is as a bit of a dark horse. In racing parlance, that’s a term for a horse that is unknown to gamblers and thus difficult to establish betting odds for.


  • May 4, 2023

    Things I Didn’t Know About the Space Industry

    Call it NewSpace or call it what you want. However we label it, it’s exciting!


  • April 29, 2023

    Is Ketogenic Diet Effective Against Brain Tumors? The Jury is Still Out

    Anecdotal evidence keep piling up to suggest that Ketogenic diet might be effective at battling brain tumors.


  • April 23, 2023

    Two Types of Failure, part II : Process Over Product

    If all you care about is to perfect your process, a great product will eventually follow.


  • April 19, 2023

    Things I Didn’t Know About IP Protection

    Just because it’s patentable doesn’t mean it works.


  • April 16, 2023

    Things I Didn’t Know About KTH

    Student revolts and stylistic standoffs with the bourgeoisie; who would have thought that the old lady had such a colourful past!


  • March 30, 2023

    A Brief History of AI

    Artificial intelligence was always a natural part of the landscape, but it failed to really capture my attention. That recently changed.


  • March 14, 2023

    Technolectual

    There seems to be a word missing in the English language.


  • February 20, 2023

    Not Deployed Here

    In startup parlance, one could say that America is failing to capture enough of the value it creates.


  • February 15, 2023

    Just Because You Wrote It Doesn’t Mean You Own It

    The value Microsoft captures by selling access to Copilot, is made on the back of thousands of unpaid volunteer coder’s contributions to open source projects.


  • February 11, 2023

    Hi, Lo, Fast & Slow : Deeptech and a Brief History of Prefixes

    Whoever picks up the bill for it, deeptech is a class of technologies with high potential impact, that require our patience to reach the market.

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