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  • July 11, 2024

    Stockholm Swinging : A Love Affair with My Adopted City

    A city is swinging when the people living in it feel that they’re making it what it is.


  • 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.


  • 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 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.


  • May 24, 2023

    Atomic Swing : A Brief History of the Shifting Swedish Nuclear Policy

    Public discourse is swinging back into favouring nuclear power, but this time there’s a visionary mismatch between politicians and scientists.


  • 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 20, 2020

    The Zen of Fika

    The fika is a very Swedish phenomenon. Technically just a coffee break, there’s a lot going on under the surface.

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