Learning from founders

September 27, 2024

I’ve been rushing for the past few weeks. Busy shipping, not doing busy work. It feels wonderful, but my energy is still low now. Time to take a break over...

More YouTube more insight

September 6, 2024

I’ve been trying to balance client work with exploring my own projects. It is much harder than I would have thought. My best work seems to happen when I know...

Updates, new project, new YouTube channel, and new posts

August 24, 2024

I’m currently helping three startups with random improvements. Some design, some speeding up their shipping. Still have some availability, but don’t want to...

Did you know belief is stronger than genes?

August 9, 2024

Turns out that what you believe you can do, is a stronger indicator of performance than genes. If that statement doesn’t blow your mind, read it again. I...

Don't kill your motivation

August 2, 2024

I’ve thought a lot about incentives and motivation over the years. Since I got my start in game design, until recently reading Poor Charlies almanac, it’s...

Progress and advice

July 27, 2024

I’m making good progress on Find Insight, my ai survey tool that helps companies talk to users. I also came across this great list of advice for founders,...

Did you learn anything actionable about your customer last week?

July 24, 2024

Did you learn anything actionable about your customer last week? Why not? If you aren’t learning from your customer, your competition probably is. But to do...

Did you know you there are things you can't hack?

July 12, 2024

We just passed the midpoint of the year. Does it feel like you’ve made 50% of the progress you want out of 2024? In some ways it does for me, in other ways...

How I learned to be strategic

June 7, 2024

I don’t claim to have become ultimately strategic. Only that this insight helped me use strategies more often in my day to day life. How I learned to be...

Creating or Consuming today?

June 4, 2024

I was at the first ever Local First conference in Berlin last week. It was a very interesting gathering of people, and since I’ve been following CRDTs since...

Weddings, wine games and books

May 18, 2024

I went to a wedding at the Algarve coast of Portugal. The nature is beautiful, but the tourism is not. Which lead me to start thinking about why tourist...

Things I did in my 30s

May 4, 2024

I turned 40. It wasn’t pretty. But here we are. You can read about things I did in my 30s. I also started making a Wine Guide / Quiz app with an AI backend....

Did you know stress is fun?

April 9, 2024

I'm turning 40 tomorrow. I'm not sure how I feel about that. But I'm in Lisbon enjoying the sun and will celebrate with a few fantastic people. I'm building...

Do you act on inspiration of long term plans?

February 11, 2024

This newsletter shared what I learn, usually every other week. Got feedback? Just respond. Want to unsubscribe? I'll understand. Now let's get to it. I...

Did you know update

November 12, 2023

Experimenting with a new format. Instead of an essay, I'm sharing my entrepreneurial progress and what I've published and read in the past week. Is it more...

Do you know when a skill is required?

October 28, 2023

I've been travelling, enjoying my friend Thord's daily mindfulness consideration, and trying to stay productive. How do you stay productive when you travel?...

Do you know how to use an eisenhower matrix?

October 6, 2023

This is how I use the Eisenhower matrix Every day I wake up to a long list of todos. More than I could ever do. So how do you not just freeze, overwhelmed by...

Did you know about personal kanbans?

September 30, 2023

In my experiment to ship faster by focusing on the basics, I've come across a classic task management technique I've always loved: the kanban. What is a...

Did you know you can make better decisions with this easy trick?

September 24, 2023

Pardon the clickbait. But it was too funny not write it, as it's actually true in this case: If you can’t decide between 2 choices, take the path that’s more...

Do you know about hypothesis driven product design?

September 19, 2023

With this post I want to give a quick overview of how to do effective hypothesis driven discovery. The deeper I go in Product Design the more it starts...

Do you know how to ship fast?

September 12, 2023

I need to get better at shipping fast. It’s not that I don’t ship today, I just have less time to work and want to have more shots at the goal. I want to run...

Did you know there is no speed limit?

August 20, 2023

I have a recurring insight. It seems I need to relearn this every few months: I don’t need to limit myself to what is normal. Just because people around you...

Did you know you can take a shortcut to good decisions?

August 13, 2023

Read this on the web. Last weekend I was discussing life goals with my wife, and she asked me “What would your 60 year old self tell your current self to...

Did you know you can increase your agency?

August 6, 2023

Realising that agency is something you can learn, and improve, has been a game changer for me. Just like charisma, it seems counter intuitive, seems like it...

Did you know you become like the place you spend time in?

July 31, 2023

I love Paul Grahams essay “Cities have ambition“. Moving around as a digital nomad I experienced this. Some places simply made it easier to do certain types...

Did you know you might need an offshore company?

July 23, 2023

This week I realised I might need to set up an offshore company just to be compliant with taxes while I’m moving around. I’m originally from Sweden,...

Did you know that stress feels exciting?

July 18, 2023

(Read this online instead.) Thursday I I started the day with a cold shower. I’ve been doing this on and off for years and, while it’s still an awful...

Maybe willpower works more like this?

July 9, 2023

Over the last few years I’ve kept reading about two theories about how willpower works. And I recently realised I think they’re both wrong. Old theories of...

Did you know repetition is the key to deep learning?

June 18, 2023

How many times have you read a book or an article only to not quite remember it a week later? I recently realised that I wasn’t learning as much as I...

Did you know we don’t learn to be helpless?

June 11, 2023

Coming back from a few weeks vacation in San Francisco, I was more primed than usual to believe that helplessness is something we learn from oppressive or...

Did you know journaling less might teach you more?

May 11, 2023

I have the recurring suspicion that we spend a lot of time doing what is essentially cargo cult work. It looks like work, but because we don’t understand how...

Did you know there's a thinking cost?

May 7, 2023

Your brain is a super computer. But with a very specific limitation: It can only work on one thing at a time. I’ve known this since my collage days. But I...

Did you know you can walk to solve problems?

April 28, 2023

I learned a lot this week, but didn’t have time to do any experiments. Here are three short ideas that I think I will experiment with next. Jogs your mind...

Did you know you can learn twice as fast when solving problems?

April 22, 2023

We spend our energy solving a lot of problems. Daily life is basically a series of logistical problems leading us to situations where we can get paid to...

Did you know that you can speed up work with some constraints?

April 15, 2023

Last weekend was both easter and my birthday. Needless to say I spent a lot of time high on sugar. And as a result I learned less. But I kept coming back to...

Did you know that you can reach out to interesting people directly?

April 1, 2023

Rereading Jakob Greenfelds excellent article “Build a business, not an audience” I realised I’ve been sharing too much content, and not enough of experiments...

Did you know you can outperform by learning from the meta game?

March 25, 2023

Second week of travel and workshops, but I learned two new ideas I’m excited to share! The first is about how to become great at something, the second is...

Did you know that you can get ROI on your attention spend?

March 17, 2023

I was travelling and on workshops the entire week. But did discover two actionable strategies I'm excited to implement: Investing your attention like money I...

Did you know stress can be caused by decisions left untaken?

March 12, 2023

I let work pile up thinking “I’ll get to it later”. But we never do, do we? One of things I learned these last two weeks is how this common pattern makes us...

Did you know you can train your mind?

February 26, 2023

I’ve been thinking about two interesting things this week: You can train your mind to think differently And how to make my hobby podcast profitable. You can...

Do you know how to rest effectively?

February 17, 2023

Do you know how to stop working, and recharge, in a way that lets you keep going over decades?

Did you know?

February 10, 2023

Do you know what it feels like to run from meaningful work?