Full stack entrepreneur. I run Languizy, the smartest self language learning service on the internet and Content Technologies, a software and content tech powerhouse. You can catch My latest book on Amazon: Keep Your Day Job: How to AI-Proof Your Career. I 🗣 & ✍ about internet culture, data, coffee, philosophy and whatnot. Come browse my digital garden 🌱

Slaughtering an idea

Haruki Murakami's latest is a research in self understanding. What does one need to do to get to know himself? It's a brutal, frightening process, but also one that left me, as a reader, with a warm and fuzzy feeling.

In defense of being an asshole

Jaron Lanier names 10 arguments to quit social media right now. He gives some compelling reasons but are they relevant for everybody? Book Review.

Getting Things Done

17 years after the first time, I re-read Getting Things Done. A bit less naive about it, I found quite a lot of value and a few tips that keeps my mind engine going.

On Reading, Marcel Proust

Like his longings and the rabbit hole memories opened by a Madeleine cookie, reading evokes similar sensations in Proust. It does also for me.

What makes something a digital garden?

Lately I have been thinking quite a lot about digital gardens. For me a digital garden is a beautiful publicly available somewhat-curated partial snapshot of your brain. I'll try to go over my definition in parts to help myself and whoever reads this follow my…

My predictions for the second half of 2020

2020 has been a strange cookie. Can it get any more weird? I give it my best shot and guess how things will eventually fold out for the universe and a little closer to home.

My failed attempt to build a second brain

For years I'm trying to be more productive. I outsource ideas, thoughts and memories but I'm never pleased. It took a while for me to comprehend that my problem is in philosophy and not in productivity.

My Projects

Humans

HUMANS

This project is no longer maintained HUMANS is the Internet's biggest repository of personal websites. It's a collection of sites of all kinds, built on various platforms, by people from all around the world. It enables one to find inspiration for creating their own site,…

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Nespresso Index

Calculating purchasing power parity by analyzing Nespresso coffee pricing

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Reddit Write

this project is no longer active The idea behind reddit.write is to try and systematically analyze subreddits in order to improve post submissions. I came up with the idea after seeing that many times very similar posts get very different results in terms of up-votes…

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This Snack Does Not Exist

This project is no longer active This little project creates random snack possibilities from food parts as our crawler found online, and grades them for plausibility of marketing success. The system can generate far fetched ideas such as "Robin Williams' lock of hair ice cream…