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Posted on Mon, 24 Jul 2023

The Boss I never wanted to be

I started writing this article with a bitter sentiment. I thought lashing out words of disapproval and philosophising on life choices would have brought closure. After about a thousand words, I got nothing back and wasn’t even driving a point about it. I decided instead to make this a self-reflection post, where I can look back and see how I gained better tools to move forward over the different situations I got myself into. …
- Management
- Growth
9 minutes read
Posted on Wed, 1 Jun 2022

Technical debt is dead

After more than twenty years working in software engineering, the words "Technical Debt" started to lose their meaning, at least in practical terms. …
- Development
- Management
7 minutes read
Posted on Mon, 30 May 2022

Delivering Ideas

While I worked for Klarna until the company decided to part ways with the 10% of its workforce, I led several key teams within the - so-called Klarna Card, the credit card product offering. What I picked up was in a not so pretty state for reasons I'm not going to discuss here. But, in essence, the teams displayed some clear dysfunctional signs, where the major red flag was the team being reactive. …
11 minutes read
Posted on Sun, 7 Mar 2021

The Touch

It could have been anyone. But for some reason, it was her. …
6 minutes read
Posted on Tue, 12 Feb 2019

Creating and maintaining patterns in PatternLab

I started writing this article a good while ago (two years ago now), and I was about to publish it at the beginning of 2019. But as it was nearing completion, life happened, and only now I'm picking it up again and finally publishing it. …
13 minutes read