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Do the Highest Priority Tasks First
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Having been a project manager for most of my adult life, I have learned that this is a thing people always believe in: You must do first, what is on top of the priority list. But there are sometimes very good reasons for those tasks to be on the list in the first place – reasons for them to not…
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Loyal Consumers, Disloyal Industries
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One very useful way to reduce the consumption of raw materials, is to keep using the devices for as long as possible – and repair them, if possible, when something minor inside breaks. It is just not very common. I know people who buy new microwave ovens and similar every year or every second year, simply because they want a…
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Attention to the needed mentality
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This new Substack is planned to publish articles about the environment that we all need to have around us in a functional state. It may sound obvious to some, that the environment is functional: after all, we are here, have been here for millions of years, and we will be here long into the future… Or will we? Despite a…
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Everything Has Already Been Invented
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Necessity is the mother of invention You probably know that idiom, and it sounds quite logical – inventions are made when needed. So, do we keep finding new needs that need new inventions? When looking at such as cars or other complex constructions, they consist of many different parts, and for each new model, some of the parts will be…
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When You Push “Publish”, You Can’t Change Anything Anymore
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Words are not sparrows; once they have flown they cannot be recaptured Or what about: Once a word leaves your mouth, you cannot chase it back even with the swiftest horse There are many such proverbs and colloquials, indicating that you’ll never have a chance to correct anything you happened to say in wrong. And there is a lot of…
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I’m an adult man, I don’t have feelings!
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You meet them in sports, and in politics. You meet them on the street, in gangs or alone. Those tough guys who feel that they must build up as much capital consisting of evil deeds as possible. They compete for evilness, hoping to some day be on top of the list, being known and feared by everybody. But they don’t…
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Welcome to The Complete World of Music!
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Through a life-long interest in music, it has been a pleasure to discover new kinds of music, listen to it and learn what was good about it, why people liked it. It has been a pleasure to search for something that I would consider as “my” music, the music I liked and by which I would be partly identified. When…
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Car Industry Needs Cheap Steel
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David Johansson, an almost ordinary man in Sweden, found a way to change the paradigm – that cars are built from steel: He built one from Lego. Full scale! It has an electric motor and actually works – it is possible to drive the construction, made of 426,000 Lego bricks, weighing 1.5 tons. Read more about his creation (in Swedish) in…
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Videos Never Lie
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I think that TV news have had a creative view on truth for a long time, so maybe it isn’t a big deal, the thing they do now. And maybe they are themselves victims, being pulled off by creative crooks or manipulative government agencies. But the end result is that they show pictures and videos that are fake. And they…
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Donald Trump Will Make America Great Again
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Who knows what is going on in the head of a man who wants to be great? We have many examples during times, all over the planet, of power people who wanted to look even greater than the power made them look. They wanted to enter the history books, or they wanted to reshape society, or perhaps they wanted to…
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