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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.


  • February 2, 2024

    The Case Against “Deep Work”

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


  • April 16, 2023

    Things I Didn’t Know About KTH

    Student revolts and stylistic standoffs with the bourgeoisie; who would have thought that the old lady had such a colourful past!


  • March 14, 2023

    Technolectual : Rise of the Tinker-Thinker

    There seems to be a word missing in the English language.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • 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.

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