Life, Learning and Handheld Devices

Reflections on reading Antifragile  by Nassim Taleb Nassim Taleb who wrote Black Swan  brings his thinking a step further by introducing t...

Although a bit outdated in its references (2008), this book its still a valid analysis of the challanges and possible approaches to fix o...

Reflections from reading "The Element" by Ken Robinson Being in your element is when you feel the flow and nothing else is pres...

My reading in 2013 was to a large extent dictated by management literature from the course  Master of Technology Management  a...

During Christmas we had a coding workshop in our local code club. I had a Raspberry PI session with 9 kids for the first time. It was fun ...

Mange kunne tenkt seg en papirløs digital skolesekk, men hva hva skal den fylles med? Skolens største utfordring er at...

There is a Norwegian movement in shaping, inspired by the US code.org and Codeclub  in UK. The initiative Kidsakoder  (@kidsakoder) was tak...

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...