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UX Design Lead. Currently at Handelsbanken | Queens Lab Stockholm. I make Experience Design and I tweet about it. Formerly @LeoBurnett, @Ogilvy & @Halvarsson

Stockholm | Dubai
Joined February 2009
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Colonel Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of State, explains how they [the White House] bought European leaders and "taught the dogs to bark". - "We bought newspaper editors" - "We bought union heads" - "We bought parliamentarians" - "We bought two secretaries general: Jens Stoltenberg and Mark Rutte" - "We bought whole countries in terms of their political apparatus and what influences them" youtu.be/PjG-zfGY5PY
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Matthew McConaughey predicts to Timothée Chalamet that AI actors will crash the Oscars. “It’s damn sure going to infiltrate our category.” “Will we, in five years, have Best AI Actor? Maybe. It’s going to be in front of us in ways we don’t even see.”
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From Sweden 🇸🇪 to Canada 🇨🇦 #semla #Sweden #Canada #fettisdagen #WinterOlympicGames Image cred: Jonas Frank
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This 40 minute lecture from Peter Thiel at Stanford will teach you more about business competition than a 2 year MBA program
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Creativity is not a democracy. Diversion from the ordinary and group consensus is what helps novelty shine and makes ideas stand out. No to group brainstorming. Yes to collaboration.
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Google Firebase Studio. Build yor app and iterate with AI agents —code, tests, migrations, even docs. One tab. One click. Zero friction. firebase.google.com
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Analyze data with AI in spreadsheets, build visuals, and run code. And it’s a free tool. #ai #analyze #aitool #spreadsheet Here's quadratic: lnkd.in/d_BkxkKz
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The market. During Wednesday’s session, there was an unusual trading volume of around 30 billion shares, the highest level in history, as per records dating back 18 years.
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This should be on a loop and played during all Hollywood Events. Ricky Gervais is the GOAT.
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Apple has released a 10 minute guided tour of Apple Vision Pro
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This will allow for mobile phone connectivity anywhere on Earth. Note, this only supports ~7Mb per beam and the beams are very big, so while this is a great solution for locations with no cellular connectivity, it is not meaningfully competitive with existing terrestrial cellular networks.
The six @Starlink satellites on this mission with Direct to Cell capability will further global connectivity and help to eliminate dead zones → direct.starlink.com
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Even a boring resting area will look like magical in the snow
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“When you sit down to create something...what you create is a culmination of everything you’ve seen and done previous to that point.” - Tinker Hatfield #Creativity #nike
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After an intense 15 months of review, today Adobe and Figma have decided to end our pending merger, as we no longer see a path toward regulatory approval of the deal. figma.com/blog/figma-adobe-a…
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Did Google just kill Matterport 🤔 Introducing SMERF… I know it’s a mouthful, most impressive paper I’ve seen in this space in a long time. SMERF: Streamable Memory Efficient Radiance Fields for Real-Time Large-Scene Exploration Links below ⬇️
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Elon Musk on the problem with MBAs
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Think like an investor. Act like an entrepreneur. Care like a designer.
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Entangled #fxhash
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AGI and eventually the fate of humans #ai #AGI #humans #learning #thinking #experience #chatGPT
with sam and greg ousted yesterday my initial thought yesterday was “shit they have discovered AGI” and the only person who was capable of understanding it was ilya sutskever. now it’s seems even more an more plausible that is the case. to understand the amount of stress and pressure he must have been under i urge you to watch this short documentary. this was recorded during the development of chatGPT. but the sincere stream of thought about the greater good AND the bad that will come from AI might put it more clear to why this might have happened. my thesis, they have had AGI internally for a while, and Ilya, andrej karpathy might have been the first ones to grasp what they have made. to be clear, geoff hinton regrets his life’s work (the work on AI) due to him worry about all the bad it can be used for. maybe ilya is under similar pressure. to much for one person to bear. regardless, we will know more soon. i feel for all involved parties, and for the community at large. this is not great.
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