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Field Notes from EQTC 2025
Trying Harder
Exponential
Worth Fighting For
Brutal
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Nordic Lag
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Sinking Feeling
Git Gud
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Good Grief
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Ice Man
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Appreciation Is All You Need
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Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
Schismogenesis
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Hacerse el Sueco
Built to Outlast
On The Psychodynamics of Self-Publishing
Abandoning Ship
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I, Animist
No Strings Attached : How Modern Physics Came Unmoored
Bataclan, the Spanish Civil War, and Restorative Justice
Taking Note
Torre-Pacheco
Attribution Is All You Need
Los Ejes de Mi Carreta
Funny Loop (Reflections on the Psychodynamics of the Writers’ Room)
Not Funny
My Kind of AI Dread
Ouroboros
Echo Chambered : Reflections in a Machine Mirror
Soulful Machine : A Loopy Conversation with Chet
Brussels, We Have a Problem (But It’s Not What the Critics Are On About)
Konst & Vetenskap
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Ascetic
Younger Than That Now
Close to the Machine
Train of Thought
Möllan
Perceived Parity vs Real Progress – Numbers Speak Louder Than Words
Bye Bye Birdie – I’ll Take It From Here
Clueless
When Feminism Goes Too Far
Ballistic
Realm of Prayers
Fast and Loose
Q Day Came Quietly
Notes from the Quantum Frontier : Day 1 at IQT Nordics
OODA Loop
Unspeakable
Lives of Poets
Out of Sight Out of Mind, or : Why Drawers Will Forever Remain My Nemesis
Resistance Reminisced
Pocket-Sized Oppression
Stage Fright
Microsoft’s Majorana Move Isn’t About Qubits. It’s Bigger Than That.
It’s Not Politics, It’s Pattern Recognition , or : The Kids Will Be All Right
Significant
Cold Comfort
Radio Silence
Woke : From Commune To Culture War
Good Anti-Racist, Bad Anti-Racist : Pledge Allegiance or Leave
How Not To (and Just Possibly How To) Study Japanese
Groundwork
First Principles Quantum
How To Feel About Michel Houellebecq
The Determinist’s Dilemma
Mythmakers’ Servants : from Cromwell to Oppenheimer
The Bright Side of Cultural Appropriation : Righteous Revenge From Quentin Tarantino to Nina Lykke
The Real Reason Tesla Is Tanking
Kite On Ice Just About Blew My Mind
What’s Great About KAOS
What’s Not to Like About “For All Mankind”
Neutral Atom
Tools of the Trade : Lessons From Norman Rockwell’s Take on Photography
Timing Was Everything: How John Harrison Solved the Longitude Problem
Putting on Airs
Shakespeare’s Edge
Golden Cage
AI’s Physics Envy
Pretentious
Existential Revenge
Tradecraft : the Stuff They Don’t Teach You at School
Weaponised Randomness : Monte Carlo from the Manhattan Project to The Three-Body Problem
Hello World!
How To Build An AI the Size of a Proton
The 2024 Reading List
Elementary : From Hadron Bootstrapping to the Implicate Order
The War That Never Ended
Teach, Don’t Tell : Lessons in Mastery, From Tennis to Welding
Quantum Primitives : An Ontology in 12 ½ Chapters
Questions Looking for Answers
Thoroughly Conscious Ignorance
The Lesser Evil
Not Invented There
Touching
Le Fraternité, c’est Surestimé
Securité, Égalité, Fraternité
Singular
Science & Policy : Bridging the Gaps That Matter
Compute Continuum
Super-Signalling
The Bumper Sticker Syndrome
Confusion Matrix
Sweet Nothing : The Gospel According to Frank Bascombe
Quantum Advantage
Saying is Believing : Authenticity, ‘Hypnosen,’ and the Startup Myth
You Know You’re Old When…
Nothing is Real : Amanda Gefter is Thinking About Life, the Universe and Everything
The Subtle Art of Shutting Up
Ontoleptic Laughter
Politically Depressed
Something Daniel Said
Asymptotic Freedom
The Innovator’s War
A Quantum of Feynman in Neal Stephenson’s Polostan
Non-Zero Overhead : What DARPA Gets Right
Magnificent Mind-Bender
Startup vs. Upstart
Un-Shutting Up About Politics
Not Even Right
Warning : Ontolepsia Ahead
Astronauts I Have Known And Loved
Prepare or Die : the Best Presenters Never Wing It
Peak Podcast
A Contradiction in Terms
A Conversation With Jacek Dukaj
Direction
Seeing the Light : Fei-fei Li and the Dawn of AI
Brick Wall
Commonplacing : Nurturing Slow Hunches from Notebook to Knowledge
Consistency is Key
Science Fiction
Shows That Work
‘We’ the Tech People
What nerve!
What part of ‘equal’ don’t you understand?
Vapourware
Happy Birthday Dad
Building the Good City : One Man’s Mission to Transform Gothenburg and Reinvent Urban Renewal
A Conversation With Sara García Alonso
A Conversation With Guido Tonelli
Stockholm Swinging : A Love Affair with My Adopted City
Love, Math & Witchcraft: How Roasting Psychoanalysis Came Back to Bite Richard Feynman
Un Verdor Terrible
Non-Commutative Reading Order : When Books Speak to Each Other Across Time
Boojums
Doing Physics vs. Sorting Stamps
Personality: Solved
Taking Liberties
Quantum Bootcamp
Same Same But Different
Canon Good
How Not To (and Just Possibly How To) Build Peace in the Middle East
Dear Dad
Killer Application: The Surprising Correlation Between Engineering Education and Terrorism
Waves Can’t Fail
Heat of the Moment
Muted
A Personal Journey Towards Extended Intelligence, or: Getting Intimate With Chet
Talking Shop
Cryptic
Quarks, Gluons & Jabberwocks : On Aptonyms and Nonce Words
Sad Swede, Happy Swede
Right Funny
The Curse of Completism : Confessions of a Compulsive Collector
Death and Entropy
The Good News Is…
Imperfectly Understanding Quantum Discord
The Art of Love
In Space, Everyone Can Hear You Scream
Just because you’re smart doesn’t mean you’re no fool
Quantum Teleportation and the Speed of Light
Write-only Privilege
Enough is Enough
Impressive
The Battle of the Elms and the End of Swedish Technocracy
Not Just a Measure of Our Ignorance
A Big Deal
Does it rub off?
Show Me Your Canon And I’ll Tell You Who You Are
Most of All, You Need a Junkyard
Dumb Questions
Hello Tomorrow 2024 : the Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Trusted Execution Environment
The Fog of Physics
Don’t Innovate, Imitate!
When the Robot Overlords Come to Take Your Job, This is What It’ll Sound Like
Abortive Action : the Power of Walking Away
Franken-tech
Out Of Control
What Is It Like To Be An Inventor?
Sometimes the Best is the Enemy of the Good
“Most of All, You Need a Junkyard”
Poking the Bear
Significantly Different
The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
The Internet Isn’t Dead, It Just Smells Funny
Finally Proof: the Limits to AI Are Not What We Thought They Were
The Case Against “Deep Work”
The Gothenburg Syndrome
Don’t Be a Leader
Stumbling On Innovation
The Enemy Within
The ‘A’ in AI
Ignorant, Incompetent, Functionally Stupid, or Just Plain Dumb?
A Beautiful Temptation
The 2023 Reading List
Getting Over Steve
Things I Didn’t Know About Quantum Entanglement
Things I Didn’t Know About Clinical Innovation
Language an *Interface* to Intelligence?
“Scientists & Engineers”
Just An Opinion
Dismissing Freud
Yoko Tawada Is Thinking About the Romans
The Word Mincer : In Silico
What A Quarter Century Worth of Winners Says About the Booker Prize
Don’t Even Think About It
Addicted to Thinking
Licensed to Code
The Spell Checker: it’s I-N-F-L-U-E-N-C-E-D, not I-N-F-L-U-E-N-C-E-R
Not The Natural Business of a Scientist
The Enemy’s Enemy
“The Job It’s Your Destiny To Do”
Minding the Gap : the Case Against Anthropology in Entrepreneurship
The World’s Not Enough : Steve Jobs Held Hostage By Own Exquisite Taste
“Our Only Hope Is Antisemitism”
Trying to Grasp Photonics
Don’t Judge This Book by its Title
BUST! the Productive Failure of LK-99
Sure You Want That PhD?
Dual-Use
BOOM!
The Innovative Stance
A State of Communicative Grace
Interbrain Synchrony
Science Means Separation
This Could Change Everything : Superconductivity Heating Up
Bimodality
Indeterminate Zones of Practice
Practice Makes Perfect
We Need to Talk About Steve
Sterility vs. Creativity
The Birth of Swedish Cool
Things I Didn’t Know About Science
The Science of Science
Does Not Compute
Making Belief : A Brief History of World Expos
What We Need Libraries For
How *Not* To Use AI
Who Asked You?
Sundar Pichai in da House : Google’s CEO on AI, the Digital Divide and the Future of Robotics
Atomic Swing : A Brief History of the Shifting Swedish Nuclear Policy
Radical Restraint
Feeling Is Believing
Transcendental Robotics
Aspects of Fashion That Never Crossed My Mind
Built To Crash
Stranger Than Fiction
Too Old For This Shit
“I don’t even have an opinion”
Ignite, Launch, Dock : a Hitchhikers Guide to the Space Industry
“No there there”
AT2021lwx
Concrete Action
Innovation Policy = Innovation Politics
Crazy Good
Things I Didn’t Know About the Space Industry
Pros and Cons of Structural Integration
Technology Push vs. Market Pull
Evidence Piling Up : Ketogenic Diet Effective Against Brain Tumors
Are You Experienced?
Pros and Cons of Vertical Integration
The Ethos of Engineering
Working the Angles
Greatest Love Story Ever?
PI-ism and Star Shaped Mentoring
Graceful Degradation of Service
Hardware Hacks Under the Microscope
Closet Open Source
Two Types of Failure, part II : Process Over Product
If Banks Knew the Price of Risk
Things I Didn’t Know About IP Protection
Things I Didn’t Know About KTH
A Brief History of AI
Technolectual : Rise of the Tinker-Thinker
Not Deployed Here
Just Because You Wrote It Doesn’t Mean You Own It
Hi, Lo, Fast & Slow : Deeptech and a Brief History of Prefixes
Engineering Isn’t What it Used to Be
The Only Thing That’s Real : Confronting Pain Through Art, from Johhny Cash to Lina Wolff
True Learning
Good Grief, Bad Grief : How Tech is Threatening to Disrupt Mourning (And How Facing Climate Change Can Come to the Rescue)
The 2022 Reading List
Missing Piece of the Fusion Puzzle : Novatron and the Return of Open Field Line Confinement
The Future of Design Education is Soft and Squishy
Into the Night
The New New Normal
Chemistry vs. Credentials
Zen and the Art of System Dynamics : Pirsig’s Philosophy and the Connected World
The Shadow of Greatness : ‘The Worst Person in the World’ and Fear of Creativity
The Dirty Little Secret About Cyber Security : Not Too Complicated, Just Hard Work
Ontoleptic Play : Alexander Mørk-Eidem’s Theatre at the Edge of Reality
Two Types of Failure : Bitter Lessons from General Magic
An Occupational Hazard : Suffering the Reverse Dunning-Kruger Effect
The Inconvenient Truth About the State of Swedish Cyber Security
Into The Soft Zone
Interesting Spells I-N-T-E-R-E-S-T-E-D
Redundancy Reconsidered
The Reading Habit
Getting To Understand (the) Spanish
A River Of Tears
The Writing Habit
The Funny Thing With Smart
Introducing Straddle, a Framework For Validating Startup Ideas
Back To Business
How To Pick A Party
Dear Apple, Here Are Three Things I’d Like You to Fix With Contacts
One Hell of a Book
First Principle Politics
Mode Confusion and the Future of Robot Design : Lessons from Human Factors Engineering
Why We Keep Referencing The Past To Feel Good About the Future, or: A Brief History of Skeuomorphism
Something Big is About to Happen, and Apple Won’t Like It
The Cost of Optimism : Philippe Squarzoni, Climate Change and the Total Perspective Vortex
Why I Won’t Use The Best Software, Even When It’s Free
The Automation Paradox : Losing Mastery in the Age of Machine Assistance
The Sim-To-Real Gap
Disruption Disrupted : How Big Tech Keeps Innovative Startups at Bay
The Better Deep Learning Gets, the More Vulnerable It Is to Adversarial Attacks
Now You See Me, Now You Don’t : Adversarial Patching Brings Serious Trust Issues to Machine Learning
Excellent Engineering Won’t Keep You From Solving the Wrong Problem
Know Your Sh*t : Why Real Knowledge Comes from Deep Immersion
Gone in 60 Seconds : Finding Meaning in a Single Minute
The Power of Persistence : Why Showing Up Matters More Than Knowing Where You’re Headed
The Trend Towards Open Core : Evolving Strategies for Open Source Monetisation
The Patron Driven Value Proposition : What Business Can Learn From Libraries
The Best of Both Worlds : How to Build a Company While Sticking to Open Source
Preparing For the Next War : Carlota Perez on Why the Future Won’t Look Like the Past
Distributed Cognition
What Doing Looks Like : Why We Struggle with Productivity and How to Fix It
Ise Ise Baby : Coherent Ising Machines and the New Frontier of Non-Von Neumann Computing
My Cup of Tea : A Reflection on Craft
Making Sense of the World : the Entangled Perspectives of Camilla Pang and Julia Ravanis
Stockholm We Have a Problem : Public Sector IT Failures and the Case for Open Source
The Price of Change :  Paying Citizens to Make Better Choices
On Focus: The Power of Switching Between Attention and Diffusion
The Subtle Art of Giving a F*ck : Kim Scott on Radical Candor
The 2021 Reading List
At the Crossroads of Intellectual Property and Software Engineering
Culture Encoded : Ellen Ullman’s Life in the Machine
Girly Stuff : Lessons from Katrine Marçal’s Mother of Invention
Brevity is Good For Business : Why Knowing When to Shut Up Can Boost Productivity
The 2020 Reading List
Creative Doesn’t Mean Nice : Striking the Balance in Company Culture
Ghost in the Machine : A Brief History of AI in Therapy
Use the Force
Steady On Target
Defining Done
Managing Mozart
Sometimes Slowing Down Will Make You Go Faster
Where Is This Road Taking Us? : Managing Complexity in Software Development
Product Spells D-E-V-I-C-E + S-E-R-V-I-C-E
Customer Value as North Star
Take Me to the Moon
Product People Will Get Us Out of the Fix
What I Think About When I Think About Design
Imagine the Unthinkable : Strategy Lessons From an Intelligence Officer
Beyond What They Want
Follow Your Fans
The Zen of Fika
Death of the Salesman
The 2019 Reading List
Love What You Launch
Smarter isn’t Better : the Surprising Truth About High Output Teams
Startup Fallacies
The 2018 Reading List
The 2017 Reading List
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