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  • May 17, 2024

    The Curse of Completism : Confessions of a Compulsive Collector

    Completism comes in many shapes and forms. It doesn’t necessarily have to manifest in a physical collection, but can also translate into a more generalised ambition to ‘take it all the way’.


  • May 13, 2024

    Imperfectly Understanding Quantum Discord

    When forced to simplify, some experts explain discord as a measurement of a certain system’s “quantumness”


  • April 21, 2024

    The Battle of the Elms and the End of Swedish Technocracy

    The word ‘politics’ has no real meaning in a technocracy. All that counts is skilful execution of ideas, which in and of themselves were fundamentally self-evident.


  • April 1, 2024

    Show Me Your Canon And I’ll Tell You Who You Are

    What we’re left with in a post-canonical world, is lists. Lists reflect their creator’s point of view in ways that make for great conversation starters.


  • March 28, 2024

    Most of All, You Need a Junkyard

    It would be smart if we could incentivise up-and-coming players to compete on ideas and execution, rather than on who’s got the bigger machine.


  • March 26, 2024

    Hello Tomorrow 2024 : the Good, the Bad & the Ugly

    There’s a lot to like about Hello Tomorrow. What attracts me the most has to do with its tonality.


  • 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.


  • March 12, 2024

    When the Robot Overlords Come to Take Your Job, This is What It’ll Sound Like

    When doomers predict that AI will steal our jobs, we picture remote and futuristic scenarios. The real threat is mundane and it’s happening now, right before our noses.


  • March 7, 2024

    Abortive Action : the Power of Walking Away

    Steve Jobs famously said that “real artists ship”, but Ulf Lundell was perhaps even more profound in stating that “a cancelled concert is also a concert.”


  • February 6, 2024

    Finally Proof: the Limits to AI Are Not What We Thought They Were

    In a funny kind of way, a study like this seems to produce knowledge which extends our ignorance.


  • February 2, 2024

    The Case Against “Deep Work”

    The notion of deep work provides a great excuse for not getting shit done.


  • January 19, 2024

    The Enemy Within

    The nazis couldn’t resist the urge to separate themselves from non-arian elements, just as the post-war US establishment couldn’t resist the temptation to go witch-hunting communists. What causes this type of psycho-political auto immune disorder?


  • January 12, 2024

    The ‘A’ in AI

    Artificial or Augmented, which team do you root for?


  • January 7, 2024

    Ignorant, Incompetent, Functionally Stupid, or Just Plain Dumb?

    Being ignorant means you’re in the dark. Ignorance can be charming; it’s what makes children and dogs cute.

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