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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?

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?

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?

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?

(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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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...

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