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