Jun 3Member-only“The quality of my life is the quality of my relationships”: Taking a relationship first approach to lifeMy ex, a woman wise beyond her years told me once, “The quality of my life is the quality of my relationships”. I have never before herd a view of life so clearly distilled into one sentence. I had been leaning towards something like this during the last 10 years…4 min read
Jun 1Member-onlyCelebrate your own successes not the “official ones”When I graduated high school, a unique and highly celebrated time in Sweden, I wasn’t proud. The celebration goes back to the days when many did not pass and hence could not go on to university. So passing was a huge thing. My dad graduated the year after they changed…4 min read
May 18Member-onlyEmotions are the spice that is life…. ride themWhat is life but the emotions that we have when we live it. Our ups and downs, fears and hopes. Yet I come from a culture where we rarely speak about emotions at all. The culture very much appreciated and expects modesty with your emotions. Nobody told me but the…Relationships2 min read
May 18Member-onlyWhy do we write?I just finished writing a very emotional piece of text. Emotions literally dripping out on the pages. But what a feeling once it was done. It was like all of the feelings I had inside left and dropped to the page. A stone lifted on my shoulders. So it made…2 min read
May 17Member-onlyRelationship, connection + bounce, [contract optional]I have been through my rounds of relationships/hookups/flings during my 34 years on this earth and I have thought a lot about what it means and how it changes you. Because I think often people think of relationships in purely contractual terms. I have made the full journey from being…Relationships5 min read
May 9Member-onlyPatrick’s top books of 2020Patrick’s top books of 2020 Shipping work is just as important as making work, so this list I made but did not ship in 2020. For me these were the top 10 books that I read and, that came out in 2020, which I would highly recommend to any of…Reading4 min read
Apr 28Member-onlyIn search of my tribeIm back in London after two years and a pandemic. I feel like a tourist, taken by the size and energy of the city and the pulse. The random collection of people streaming past me on the streets and in the tube. I know now what tourists come for, and…4 min read
Apr 14Member-onlySometimes the most healthy thing to do is to not be normalI recently had a chat with a close friend of mine. She had been struggling to sleep and regularly only slept for 5–6 hours per night. She had tried it all, including sleep rituals to get in the right mood. I asked a simple question, did she drink coffe. Yes…5 min read
Mar 29Member-onlyI read 50 books per year and these are the 5 most common mistakes I see new readers makeI love reading and spend more time reading than almost any other activity apart from work. I’ve spoken with lots of my friends and colleagues who are trying to read more and I see that many of them make the same mistakes. …3 min read
Dec 10, 2021Member-onlySveriges skogsindustri ur ett internationellt perspektivVad är det som händer med den svenska skogen? Genom att titta på den svenska skogsindustrin genom allmänt etablerade politiska och ekonomiska ramverk får man en förståelse för vad som händer samt hur liknande utveckling skett utomlands. Extraktiva Industrier Svenska skogsindustrin är en extraktiv industri som drar värde främst från…8 min read
