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  • March 14, 2023

    Technolectual : Rise of the Tinker-Thinker

    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.


  • 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.


  • 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 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 : Pirsig’s Philosophy and the Connected World

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


  • October 21, 2022

    An Occupational Hazard : Suffering the Reverse Dunning-Kruger Effect

    My dream has come true, only I should have been more careful what I wished for…


  • October 18, 2022

    The Inconvenient Truth About the State of Swedish Cyber Security

    The nation is under constant attack and we’re ill prepared to fight back.


  • October 11, 2022

    Interesting Spells I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T-E-D

    The latest HBO show feels as random as life itself. It really shouldn’t work, and yet something keeps it all together.


  • October 5, 2022

    Redundancy Reconsidered

    We somehow appreciate the inherent comedy in how engineers systematically over-provision, create fallbacks, fail-safes and redundancies at every possible corner.

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