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  • April 29, 2023

    Evidence Piling Up : Ketogenic Diet Effective Against Brain Tumors

    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.


  • February 1, 2023

    The Only Thing That’s Real : Confronting Pain Through Art, from Johhny Cash to Lina Wolff

    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 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.


  • November 27, 2022

    Into the Night

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


  • November 11, 2022

    The Shadow of Greatness : ‘The Worst Person in the World’ and Fear of Creativity

    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 1, 2022

    Ontoleptic Play : Alexander Mørk-Eidem’s Theatre at the Edge of Reality

    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 : Bitter Lessons from General Magic

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


  • October 17, 2022

    Into The Soft Zone

    Where adults need to protect their fragile zone with headphones, nicotine and seclusion, kids naturally invite whatever the world serves up and use it creatively.


  • October 3, 2022

    The Reading Habit

    I finally figured out the answer to that question I used to subject innocent job seekers to. It took me three full iterations.


  • October 2, 2022

    Getting To Understand (the) Spanish

    I married into a very Spanish family and had to start from scratch in making sense of a new culture. So I did what I tend to do when faced with the unknown, I turned to literature.


  • September 26, 2022

    A River Of Tears

    I remember one of my first hangovers. I was on a beautiful beach surrounded by friends. They’d baked me a cake, but I didn’t have the stomach for it.


  • September 23, 2022

    The Writing Habit

    When pivotal events occur in life, you often fail to notice them at the time. When it comes to writing, there has been two such occasions for me.


  • September 12, 2022

    Back To Business

    At its core, the Swedish political project has always been an optimistic one. Regardless of what party that ruled the country, our leaders seem to have shared a deeply held belief that we can handle whatever challenges we’re facing and that in the long run we’re making good progress.

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