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Caspian Almerud
Writing

Writing

Scattered notes from things I built, measured, broke, or eventually understood.

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2026-04-01

How I Run 16 Clients with an Obsidian Vault and Claude

I built a local knowledge base in Obsidian with a standardized folder per client, wrote rules and SOPs that Claude follows, and layered scheduled automations on top. Here's what the system looks like after a few months of iteration.

2025-12-31

Ledarskapsprogram som förändrar beteenden

Med det som bakgrund så borde vi kunna skapa förutsättningar för att förändra beteenden och därmed skapa bättre ledarskapsprogram som på papper uppfyller de mål som andra ledarskapsprogram säger att...

2025-12-31

Experimenting on myself

I've done it with sleep, nutrition, productivity systems and exercise, among other areas. It's how I learn about myself.

2025-12-31

I’ve been a fanatic in a bunch of different ways

Being a fanatic is often thought of as being religious or political, but that’s quite limiting for a behaviour that’s present in many more areas of life. Being a fanatic is, according to Amos Oz,...

2025-12-31

Want to split your nights sleep into two

I've run a bunch of different experiments on my own sleep. Bi-nocturnal sleeping is one of the most interesting that I've done.

2025-12-31

Going gear-first

In high school I played football (the one where you kick a ball with your foot repeatedly, not just once in a while). My shoes cost a fortune.

2025-12-31

Trust your systems

A challenge that I’ve managed to condition out of myself, is that we tend to flex these systems.

2025-12-31

Why don't you have a six pack of abs?

As recently as yesterday I heard someone say "If it's simple, why isn't someone else doing it?".

2025-12-31

Jag kan inte byta ut min mekaniker med ChatGPT

För några dagar sedan besiktigade jag min bil. Jag fick ett par tvåor (inte oväntat, kör en 2003 Volvo som sjunger på sista versen). En av tvåorna var en felkod i datorn.

2025-12-31

Posting consistently changed my career

I can directly trace those things to the jobs I've had. Literally. I've been told that I was hired for jobs/gigs because of what I've posted.

2025-12-31

Running as therapy

When I tell people I'm a runner, the usual response is "Oh, running is so boring". Not always, but it's the most common response. And I agree, to a large extent. Running isn't exciting. It's...

2022-02-16

Don’t ask the sun for mercy

I’ve bee deeply immersed in both the Dune and Star Wars universes lately, reading the books and watching the spinoff series respectively…

2022-02-14

This is the way

That’s the phrase used by the Mandalorians, a people found in the series with the same name. Based in a Star Wars universe, the…

2022-02-13

The small things

Back when I lived with my mom, whenever my mom got home, I let go of everything I had going on and greeted her at the door. If she had bags…

2022-02-09

Extreme ownership and the things to think about when applying it

A while ago, I wrote a text about radical self responsibility, a principle that I, to a large extent, have lived my life by since I wrote…

2021-11-20

A decision is a decision is a decision

We all make a whole lot of decisions every single day. They come in all kinds of situations, and they have different kinds of impact on us…

2021-08-06

Management in my own company

As a small business owner, I’ve come to the realisation that my biggest task is to manage myself. My emotions, motivation, time, boundaries…

2021-07-31

Together and alone

Yet, there are a lot of signs telling us that they’re not opposites in a binary system, rather they’re on a scale.

2021-07-30

Transferring value from one place to another

The other day I had a conversation with a friend and colleague about value. He’s running a business on creating value for people at scale…

2021-06-18

life is so similar to all living things

I haven’t written anything like this in a long time. The past year and a half, and particularly the past half year has brought a lot of…

2021-04-06

Emotional labour costs more

Today, I had a coaching session with a friend. We’ve decided to trade coaching sessions with one another as we complement each other pretty…

2021-04-05

The antifragility of mass

Removing fragility doesn’t mean something becomes antifragile. It means you’ve removed fragility. Afragile as some would say, or robust.

2021-03-31

Brödet som förföljer mig

Där satt hon under det stora trädet, i skuggan, och gjorde bröd över en eld. Aldrig någonsin har Malmö känts så mycket som utomlands som…

2021-03-24

För några dagar sedan fick jag träffa min flickväns kompis för första gången.

Vi satt och tog en kopp te, pratade om vad som händer i livet. Kompisen pratade om sin utbildning och uppgiften hon skrev på just nu…