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  • 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.


  • November 11, 2022

    The Shadow of Greatness

    Creativity is scary. You want to have access to it in your life, but also to keep it at arms length, lest it consumes you.


  • November 7, 2022

    The Dirty Little Secret About Cyber Security : Not Too Complicated, Just Hard Work

    When the real truth starts seeping in, it feels like one of those detective stories where you realise in hindsight that the clues were there in plain view for anyone who cared to really look.


  • November 1, 2022

    Ontoleptic Play

    Theatre has always had the potential to shift our perception of reality. Boosted by technology, it’s now proving to be one of the most interesting ontological laboratories that are available to us.


  • October 31, 2022

    Two Types of Failure

    I’m not a religious person but I had a next to spiritual experience the other day.

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