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  • 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.


  • February 5, 2023

    Engineering Isn’t What it Used to Be

    The toolbox of modern engineering contains a motley mix of approaches.


  • February 1, 2023

    The Only Thing That’s Real

    I was appalled by every page of Djävulsgreppet, but I’m profoundly grateful that Wolf took the pain to write it. The world has turned into a richer place for it.


  • January 29, 2023

    True Learning

    How do you teach entrepreneurship? I seriously doubt that it’s possible, the patterns are too irregular to be codified.


  • January 12, 2023

    Good Grief, Bad Grief : How Tech is Threatening to Disrupt Mourning (And How Facing Climate Change Can Come to the Rescue)

    What a prospect to think that one day we won’t be able to tell the difference between a zoom call and talking to the dead.


  • December 30, 2022

    The 2022 Reading List

    It’s been a good book year.


  • December 22, 2022

    Missing Piece of the Fusion Puzzle : Novatron and the Return of Open Field Line Confinement

    It’s not trivial to make fusion work, but a real breakthrough is now in the making, and it’s happening at KTH.


  • December 1, 2022

    The Future of Design Education is Soft and Squishy

    A sponge maximises surface area to build capacity for absorption. We should try to be more sponge-like.


  • November 27, 2022

    Into the Night

    However scary the monsters might seem, try to just sit with them. It’ll be all right.


  • November 24, 2022

    The New New Normal*

    Entering the parastronaut chapter, the space-space has just gotten even more inspirational!


  • November 21, 2022

    Chemistry vs. Credentials

    It’s only when two people share values and buy into the same mission, that they can fully trust each other.


  • November 15, 2022

    Zen and the Art of System Dynamics

    When a baby is born, it’s not aware of itself as a separate entity. All there is in the beginning, is quality.

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