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  • June 6, 2024

    Killer Application: The Surprising Correlation Between Engineering Education and Terrorism

    It’s not that terrorists are desperate for tech-talent, it’s that engineering education breeds the type of mindset that’s conducive to extremism.


  • May 23, 2024

    Talking Shop

    Talking shop is fine, but integrating the wider world into your shop-talk is even better.


  • May 19, 2024

    Sad Swede, Happy Swede

    Swedish novelists feel bad about life. Meanwhile the rest of the population seem to be doing quite alright.


  • 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.


  • September 26, 2022

    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.


  • August 9, 2022

    The Cost of Optimism : Philippe Squarzoni, Climate Change and the Total Perspective Vortex

    I recently read two novels about gay men in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. Their reluctance to take the test reminds me of my own feelings with regards to global warming.


  • April 13, 2022

    Stockholm We Have a Problem : Public Sector IT Failures and the Case for Open Source

    Sweden has become a unicorn factory and programming is one of the most common occupations, but successful IT-projects are rare outside of the private sector.


  • March 31, 2022

    The Price of Change :  Paying Citizens to Make Better Choices

    What would happen if instead of encouraging people with subtle queues, you’d simply pay them cash?

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