Writing
Scattered notes from things I built, measured, broke, or eventually understood.
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…
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…
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…
Chaos isn’t a pit. It’s a ladder.
— Littlefinger, Game of Thrones
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…
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?
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…
Death to meed
And that’s a good thing.
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…
Headache.
A headache is a signal that your body is sending.
Hej Morfar.
Hej Morfar.
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…
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…
7 impossib
Sometimes I wonder what the initial thought was behind the design of trees. Or rocks.
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...
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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...
Some things take time.
Things take time. At times we have to let them take their time, other times we can impact them.