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  • April 10, 2025

    Microsoft’s Majorana Move Isn’t About Qubits. It’s Bigger Than That.

    Quantum. Nobody said it was supposed to be straightforward.


  • January 3, 2025

    Tradecraft : the Stuff They Don’t Teach You at School

    Spies, coders, journalists—they all rely on intuition, improvisation, and experience. It’s tradecraft.


  • August 16, 2024

    Commonplacing : Nurturing Slow Hunches from Notebook to Knowledge

    Carmen Berzatto does it. Sherlock Holmes did it too. How about you, do you commonplace?


  • June 19, 2024

    Quantum Bootcamp

    Sweden has been lagging badly behind when it comes to quantum tech. Most of the funding has been provided by private players and there’s been no national strategy. That’s starting to change now.


  • March 20, 2024

    Trusted Execution Environment

    The other day I got a whiff of what it must have been like to have been part of the golden age of ARPA and NASA.


  • March 15, 2024

    Don’t Innovate, Imitate!

    We’re all copycats. Trying too hard to be unique will most likely just cause stagnation.


  • December 17, 2023

    Things I Didn’t Know About Clinical Innovation

    Over the last few months, I’ve often felt like a street-fighting urchin who’s put in a karate class; instinctively rebellious against any meddling with what’s already battle-tested. But again and again, I’ve had to accept that going back to first principles and carefully build up a new conceptual framework, has been worth the effort.


  • September 6, 2023

    Minding the Gap : the Case Against Anthropology in Entrepreneurship

    Entrepreneurs aren’t looking to understand the world such as it ‘really is’. They just need to get a good enough grasp of a given context.


  • 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!


  • 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.


  • September 15, 2022

    Introducing Straddle, a Framework For Validating Startup Ideas

    A good framework paves a way for the mind, making it easier to grasp a reality which will always remain chaotic in its essence.


  • September 4, 2022

    Dear Apple, Here Are Three Things I’d Like You to Fix With Contacts

    Contact represents a glaring blind spot both in terms of functionality and user experience. That’s ironic since Apple’s marketing revolves around connecting people.


  • May 26, 2022

    Excellent Engineering Won’t Keep You From Solving the Wrong Problem : How Story Mapping Helps You Stay Aligned with What Matters

    Teams like this can follow the tenants of XP and agile to the letter, and still build the wrong product. Teams like this need tools on a whole different level.


  • May 4, 2022

    The Best of Both Worlds : How to Build a Company While Sticking to Open Source

    The professor’s privilege and means that researchers can do what they want with whatever they create. Which if you’re in software usually just means you publish your code on GitHub and move on to the next research project.

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