Life, Learning and Handheld Devices

The most inspiring talk at the innovation conference Grow2013 was from René Carayol.  He is a leading Business Guru and author of Corporate...

Many of the books I read this year, gave me new perspectives and changed the way I think. Following up on the " Books I read in 2011 ...

I brought the 2 kindles and a wireless router to Nyenga. See my previous post on Planning for Africa . It was fun to introduce Kindle to ki...

Our family have decided to spend Christmas in Africa. Our motivation is to see Africa of course, and escape from our well known routines foc...

It was with great excitement I unpacked my new BioLite camp stove today. It was ordered 5 minutes after reading about it in PopularSc...

Summer 2012 - sailing , a set on Flickr. We headed for wonderful Læsø in Kattegat - the third summer in a row. For the first...

My iPad 3 is now prepared for summer holiday at sea. After some research, the choice landed on Griffins Survivor case. Both because it is...

Nassem Taleb  born in Lebanon (1960),  focuses on problems of randomness and probability. He has been a wall street trader, hedge fund manag...

I promised an update on my search for the optimal personal creativity app in my last blog post . In retrospect in became even clearer to me ...

David Allen´s GTD promise of stress-free productivity suggest that lack of productivity is our main source of stress.   Too much focus on ...

In Bergen we do have four seasons, but we never know when we get them. In April and May we can get all in one week; snow, rain, warm a...

Yesterday we took a cab to the city centre to listen to Goldenboy . Just as I was about to leave the taxi and looked at the taximeter, my ...

I just submitted a talk to JavaZone before the deadline April 16. Scalable Vector Graphics is a mature standard that have been aroun...

March 15th I attended the GROW innovation conference in Bergen for the second year. It was a day for inspiration and new perspectives. M...

Yesterday we had our second meetup in the Business Model User Group Bergen. First we got a presentation from the two winners of Bergen star...

Thanks to @bryanrieger and @jonarnes,  I was guided to the Bret Victors great talk at CUSEC 2012 : "Inventing on Principle" . T...

Author John Gray of bestselling "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus",  made Friday night  an embarrassing appearance ...

This weekend I spent one night in tent in -13°C, and used the opportunity to test my Kindle under these conditions. Since I got my ...

Today we spent the day at our summer place at Milde. Sometimes it's a good feeling to visit the sea in the "wrong" season. It...

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware , Andy Hunt read march Probably one of the few books I can attribute a habit to...

This book is a classic written more than 30 years ago by Seymour Papert. To me, its age makes the book even more mind-blowing, as the i...

This is my overflow from the last blog post on the TEDx 2011 in Brussels .  I had so many great quotes, that I simply had to share them. ...

This morning I had plans to do regular work, but as I checked twitter I saw TEDx trending on top. I had to check it out - it was live str...

This book is far from a 10 bullets quick fix, it is based on 5 years of thorough research and analysis of companies that changed dramati...

Roots - The 7 duties of GREAT software professionals Jurgen Appello This is my notes from @jurgenappelo keynote at the #roots2011 in Berge...

(Review of Neil Postmans: Amusing our selves to death) Neil Postmans "amusing our selves to death" from 1984  is an analysis of...

Mobilism Day 2 All slides found here Steve Souders ( @souders ) - High Pe...

An excellent conference with very good atmosphere 4 Mobiletech'ers was ...

I don't know - but I was looking for the recipe of pasta vongole the other day. Me and Lene were having a weekend without kids and this...

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