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Caspian Almerud
Writing

Writing

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

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2020-05-21

Seeing opportunity is an acquired skill, just like any problem solving.

Back in maths class, we used to have competitions in solving sudokus. In a very simple form, the puzzle is a problem with confining rules…

2020-05-20

Learning something n

Learning new things is easy. All you need to do is to expose yourself to whatever it is you want to learn enough, try it our for yourself…

2020-05-19

Getting ba

It takes courage to get up again after feeling defeated. I rarely admire people who start running, but heavily fuck with people who pick…

2020-05-12

Chaos isn’t a pit. It’s a ladder.

— Littlefinger, Game of Thrones

2020-05-11

Work ethic kills fear

I’ve followed the device “Work ethic kills fear” for quite some time now, and proudly so. I’ve understood it intellectually, but not…

2020-05-07

You pay a little more than at other places, but you get a lot more value from it.

What can you do to make that true? What do you need to do to provide more value than you promise to deliver?

2020-05-05

Productivity Block

As I see it, there are two different ways of dealing with productivity blocks. Either, you accept that there’s a block and you leave the…

2020-05-04

Death to meed

And that’s a good thing.

2020-05-01

The feeling of being at the edge.

Have you ever stood right on the edge of a steep slope and looked around on the vastness in front of you? There’s a feeling of abundance…

2020-04-30

Headache.

A headache is a signal that your body is sending.

2020-04-29

Hej Morfar.

Hej Morfar.

2020-04-27

Seasons of liv

I think everything in life is seasonal, just like the year. We all have our seasons, both inner and external ones. Some are more frequent…

2020-04-22

On relationships and the anger we share in them.

I’ve realised something working with a kid who suffers from mental illness for the past year. There’s a lot more to him than just mental…

2020-04-21

7 impossib

Sometimes I wonder what the initial thought was behind the design of trees. Or rocks.

2020-04-20

Rethinking celebration

Many of us have to cancel all sorts of celebrations due to the pandemic. Weddings, graduations and even funerals. About a week ago the administration at our university called off our graduation...

2020-04-19

Empathy and actio

We can have empathy without action. Empathy in and out of itself doesn’t mean change. Just like imagination doesn’t mean creativity.

2020-04-14

The feeling of control.

You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody panics when things go “according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the…

2020-04-13

Starting and finishing on plus.

I haven’t finished a day on plus in a very long time. Neither have I started a day on plus in a very long time. That is, I haven’t been…

2020-04-12

To bring someone a certain amount of joy and happiness, I’d do almost anything.

Yesterday I spent close to all my awaken hours in a car alone. My mom and her husband are up in his house, 4,5 hours away, and they’d…

2020-04-09

On connection

I’ve been in a bit of a rough patch with one of my employers this past month. He’s working from home, and they’ve had a rough time with…

2020-04-08

Sometimes going with the punch is

Yesterday I wrote about changing my daily clock around to work for me rather than against me. I experimented with getting it back to what…

2020-04-07

Go with the fist.

The past weeks I’ve been going against my natural clock of waking up early and going to bed early. Instead I’ve stayed up late and woken…

2020-04-06

Life happens.

I rarely miss an appointment. It’s something I’ve been brought up with: I don’t cancel things. Sometimes we all have things happening to us, happening around us, or simply life happens. And sometimes...

2020-04-05

Some things take time.

Things take time. At times we have to let them take their time, other times we can impact them.