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  • June 10, 2024

    How Not To (and Just Possibly How To) Build Peace in the Middle East

    They say there’s a special type of peacefulness preceding storms. That felt true of the atmosphere in Israel and Palestine during the spring and summer of 2000.


  • 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 12, 2022

    Back To Business

    At its core, the Swedish political project has always been an optimistic one. Regardless of what party that ruled the country, our leaders seem to have shared a deeply held belief that we can handle whatever challenges we’re facing and that in the long run we’re making good progress.


  • September 8, 2022

    How To Pick A Party

    When I go to cast my vote a few days from now, I feel confident that I’m backing the right horse. That’s thanks to something I learned during many years of recruiting tech talent.


  • August 26, 2022

    First Principle Politics

    No amount of innovation will save the world from climate change, unless politicians across the ideological spectrum also do their part.


  • August 15, 2022

    Something Big is About to Happen, and Apple Won’t Like It : the Digital Markets Act and the End of the Walled Garden Strategy

    Apple’s renowned “user friendliness” comes at a price, or at least that’s what Apple likes us to believe.


  • 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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