March 2012
5 posts
Catching up
Recently, I started hearing more and more about something called Pinterest. The knee-jerk reaction was to dismiss it as useless, but then fear struck me. Fear that I was getting old, starting to accept habits as truths, and ceasing to learn new things.
Since then, I have been testing as many new web services as possible, trying hard to understand what makes them popular.
Change is accelerating,...
Free engraving
Apple’s free engraving isn’t really free. Resell value goes down, increasing the lifetime cost of the products, while also increasing Apple’s inventory turnover rate for new products due to the decreased appeal of second hand, engraved products.
Increased goodwill towards the brand comes as a bonus.
Not a bad idea at all.
“This is a very noisy world, so, we have to be very clear what we want them to...”
– Steve Jobs
My Dearest,
I have tried to compose what might adequately capture what I’m feeling. Although I have written and rewritten this many times over, I have yet to succeed.
Time to time, I’m reminded of your presence; making my heart flutter briefly. When that happens, I pinch myself to check that I’m not dreaming. Are we really together? Slowly, this is becoming a daily occurrence.
Although we...
February 2012
2 posts
We are in the beginning of the greatest change that humanity has ever undergone. There is no shock, no epoch-making incident-but then there is no shock at a cloudy daybreak. At no point can we say, here it commences, now, last minute was night and this is morning. But insensibly we are in the day. If we care to look we can foresee growing knowledge, growing order, and presently a deliberate...
January 2012
1 post
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you...”
– Mohandas Gandhi
December 2011
1 post
Cheap Willl Be Smart. Expensive Will Be Dumb. →
November 2011
1 post
“…skill is often necessary, but always insufficient”
– neilk on Hacker News
October 2011
5 posts
tumblrbot asked: ROBOTS OR DINOSAURS?
The best productivity hack ever →
September 2011
5 posts
1 tag
“Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything...”
– Bruce Lee
The best birthday present ever →
Relentlessly resourceful →
Summer reading list
Read some books while traveling this summer. Here’s a list along with short comments.
A Brief History of Time - A book about all the big questions. Where do we come from? What will happen? What is time? Etc.. Very well written.
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People - Gives you an insight on how it’s like to work at a magazine like Vanity Fair. The book got boring at times.
The Man...
August 2011
4 posts
1 tag
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might oft win, by fearing...”
– Shakespeare
“Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.”
– Michael Caine
Market research sucks
I’m not a big fan of market research, but understand that it can be useful in less volatile industries (i.e. FMCG) and also to gauge indications of sentiment change over time in less mature markets (i.e. consumer electronics).
Previously, I’ve helped do market research for a few large Swedish and multinational companies. Last month, however, I had a chance to experience how it was to...
June 2011
1 post
“Writing desktop software has become a lot less fun. If you want to write desktop...”
– Paul Graham
May 2011
3 posts
“…the only great art is the art you love.”
– Marcus Geduld
1 tag
“Pay attention to the people who get things done, break new ground, or get you pumped.” -Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene
If I were able to live my life anew, in the next I would try to commit more errors. I would not try to be so perfect, I would relax more. I would be more foolish than I’ve been, In fact, I would take few things seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would run more risks, take more vacations, contemplate more sunsets, climb more mountains, swim more rivers. I would go to more places where I’ve...
April 2011
6 posts
"the distribution of wealth as well as of poverty"
ryanfreitas:
“Having abolished the caste systems of old and fought to ensure universal access to education and opportunity, it seemed that we might have built up a meritocracy that had introduced an element of true justice into the distribution of wealth as well as of poverty. In the modern era, destitution could therefore be regarded as not merely pitiable but deserved.”
- Alain de Botton, “A...
Something I've been working on
Now that it has been mentioned on both Forbes and Mashable, I figure it’s about time to publicize this on my personal blog as well. Presenting AllaDeals, one of the projects that I’ve been working on over the past few months. First, we plan to collect all of Sweden’s daily deals in one spot, but ultimately the goal is world domination. Come have a peek!
“In school, intelligence is a measurement, if you have the same answer as...”
– Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder
Help the world sleep less
After watching this TED talk, I began thinking about life expectancy. Below are some random thoughts on this.
Life extension is interesting and will be a hot field in the future.
However, optimizing sleep may be a better short-term pursuit. After all, the more time you spend awake, the more you can actually live. Thus, in a way, sleeping less is a form of life extension. A lot of our sleep time...
March 2011
5 posts
Great slides on gamification →
Somebody needs to disrupt the textbooks market
Problems with (business school) textbooks:
Outdated information, written by people who’ve been in academia for too long, losing touch with the business world.
Content is little more than common sense spruced up with fancy words and models, making things sound more complicated than they really are.
Longer than they need to be, since author pay is based on page count.
Rehashing of same...
1 tag
Software is la futura
Two things are happening:
Computer hardware is mattering less and less.
Computers are becoming more and more widespread.
We’ve come to a point in computer hardware development where further gains will be incremental. Our computers can do everything we need them to already. The rise of cloud computing and social gaming will further decelerate the need for faster hardware. Apple has...
February 2011
3 posts
FU money →
Free! by Chris Anderson →
Yeah, yeah. I’m a little late. Just finished this book on my Kindle. It contains some ungrounded assumptions and distant comparisons, but mostly it was an eye-opening and inspiring read. Basically, it explores what happens when marginal costs in business drop to zero.
Losing slack
Sold my iPad, iPhone, iPod nano, spare Magic Mouse, Apple Remote and lots of other stuff gathering dust. Got a Kindle 3G & a Meizu M9 phone. I realized that I didn’t use 90 % of the features on my iPad, or actually — never used it much at all.
Right now, I just want to simplify everything. Perhaps I’m getting old.
January 2011
5 posts
Made in China -> Owned by China →
What happens to our world when we go from having things made in China, to having big business owned by China? What opportunities exist during a shift like this?
Quora is awesome →
After asking a question about Engadget, I get answers from both the founder and former editor-in-chief. Engadget is the world’s #2 largest blog according to Technorati.
1 tag
“Life isn’t a bus ride. Get off, run in front of it and don’t worry...”
– Michael Smith
The philosophy behind Burning Man →
Working hard is overrated →
December 2010
6 posts
THE “LADIES’ NIGHT” STRATEGY →
1 tag
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in...”
– Albert Einstein (via joshbuckley)