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2025

What happens when pride and ideology stand in the way of progress and learning from history?

We like to think history teaches us. That every mistake leaves a mark deep enough to make us wiser next time. But I’m starting to doubt that. Watching the world today, in politics, in business, and in our own lives, I see the same pattern repeating: pride blocks learning, ideology blinds reason, and ego drives us toward collapse. This isn’t a rant. It’s an observation. Maybe even a confession. Because I see it everywhere, in leaders, in companies and in myself.

  • in Thoughts
  • 3 min read

Don’t alienate your coworkers even if they are wrong

Disagreements at work are inevitable. You and your coworkers see things differently because you come from different backgrounds, have different experiences, and operate in different areas of expertise. That diversity is what makes a team valuable. But it also creates friction. At some point, someone will be wrong—factually, logically, or practically. The real question is not whether you correct them. The real question is how you do it.

The silent war in our safe home

There is something unsettling about how normal everything feels right now. I sit at the kitchen table with my morning coffee, scrolling through the news. A ransomware attack on Miljödata cripples hundreds of Swedish municipalities. A Russian deepfake campaign targets Germany’s chancellor. Moldova’s president warns of Russian hybrid warfare before the election. The U.S. steps back from efforts to fight disinformation from China and Iran. And all of it drifts past like weather while I wonder if I should buy milk on the way home from work. Maybe that is the most frightening part. Not that it happens, but how quickly we get used to it.

Cybersecurity is not a roller coaster ride

A day at Liseberg is really a day of waiting. Queues that curl around corners, virtual queues in the app, even lines for snacks. We all accept it because the reward is the ride itself.

When my turn came for a roller coaster, I strapped in without hesitation. No risk assessment, no checklist, no thought about steel inspections or worn bolts. I trusted that others had done the work: engineers, inspectors, the park itself. My only role was to let go and enjoy.

  • in Thoughts
  • 4 min read

V for Vendetta

The dystopia that became reality

Watching V for Vendetta in 2025 is no longer like revisiting a dystopian fantasy. It's like watching the news, only with better dialogue.

I watched the film again last week after quite a while, and it got me thinking. When Alan Moore first published the graphic novel in the 1980s, it reflected the Thatcher era with its politics, social unrest, and the constant fear of nuclear war. He wrote about a society governed by fear, propaganda, and a regime that promised order at the price of freedom. When the film arrived in 2005, the world was preoccupied with terrorist threats, the Patriot Act, and surveillance. Back then, the story felt like a warning.

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  • 3 min read

Why politeness matters, even with opponents

Everywhere I look, people are tearing into each other. Online, in politics, even in daily life. The loudest voices are the angriest ones. Every disagreement turns personal. It is not about ideas anymore. It is about crushing the other person. And I get it. Anger feels good. Throwing an insult feels like winning for a moment. But it never changes anything. It just makes the walls higher.

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  • 2 min read

When we drain the ocean and praise the puddles

Swedish and European IT is caught in a paradox. We stand before the greatest infrastructure humanity has ever built. Oceans of compute, storage, and security. Platforms hardened by global investments. Built with resilience no single EU state could dream of and with protections no local provider can match.

And yet, in fear and misplaced pride, we drain the ocean.

  • 6 min read

What poses the greatest threat to democracy and digital freedom today?

Ask yourself this: are we focusing more on compliance because it is measurable, reportable, and easy to present in a boardroom while ignoring the deeper, more chaotic cyber threats that truly undermine democracy? When politicians openly fire intelligence officials, dismiss hacking evidence, or cast doubt on the electoral process, it raises a hard question: which is more dangerous, the technical overreach by corporations, political destabilization by populists, or covert attacks by state-backed hackers?

This is not a hypothetical. In the real world, AI tools quietly scrape data in the background. Political leaders rewrite reality in 280 characters. And somewhere in the dark, an APT group quietly moves through a government network undetected.

What is worse: the slow erosion of digital rights under corporate compliance regimes, or the blunt force trauma of populistdriven disinformation? Or is the real threat how all three forces, Big Tech, populist politics, and state hackers, converge and reinforce each other?

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  • 2 min read

Mordor or Rivendell? The Internet is our Middle-earth

Middle-earth never had hashtags, but it did have trolls. And compared to the ones lurking on your feed, cave trolls were a breeze.

Tolkien’s world wasn’t just swords, magic, and epic battles. It was about choices under pressure and the kind of person you become when the stakes are high. Same rules apply here, only the battle is fought on comment threads and DMs instead of Pelennor Fields.