Slow thoughts

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • How To Pick A Party

    When I go to cast my vote a few days from now, I feel confident that I’m backing the right horse. That’s thanks to something I learned during many years of recruiting tech talent.

  • One Hell of a Book

    Learning to love yourself in a country where your life can be taken away from you at any moment and there’s nothing you can do about it – learning to love yourself in the middle of all that? Hell, that’s a goddamn miracle.

  • First Principle Politics

    No amount of innovation will save the world from climate change, unless politicians across the ideological spectrum also do their part.

  • Gone in 60 Seconds : Finding Meaning in a Single Minute

    What would you do if you had a house full of actors unable to get in front of an audience for an indefinite period of time?

  • The Power of Persistence : Why Showing Up Matters More Than Knowing Where You’re Headed

    I recently passed my 666th consecutive day of studying Japanese. It made me think of Satan.

  • Distributed Cognition

    When you forget the details of some complicated concept and have to consult an external resource, that’s distributed cognition.

  • What Doing Looks Like : Why We Struggle with Productivity and How to Fix It

    I’d like to be a bit like Mrs. Whiting myself. She knows where she wants to go and she can turn that crystal clear vision into manageable chunks of action.

  • My Cup of Tea : A Reflection on Craft

    Every move the bar man man makes while preparing my tea is perfectly measured, it’s like watching a Tai-Chi master.

  • On Focus: The Power of Switching Between Attention and Diffusion

    Our brains are built to toggle back and forth between sharp and fuzzy. Proper learning can only happen in the interplay between daydreaming and attention

  • The 2021 Reading List

    My taste in books is… eclectic

  • The 2020 Reading List

    *** Other reading lists: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

  • The Zen of Fika

    The fika is a very Swedish phenomenon. Technically just a coffee break, there’s a lot going on under the surface.