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This is where I write down what I'm building, what I've learned and what I'm curious about. Client work, side projects, half-formed ideas. Some of it worked, some of it didn't, and I try to say which.
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Philosophy · 30 Sept 2026 Life is will to power This week a TikTok of Plato and Nietzsche face to face put words to how I think. Plato looked for truths that never change. Nietzsche said life is will to power: the drive to grow and overcome yourself. -
Data Science · 29 Sept 2026 What a bike maker's data knew Three problems at one bicycle maker, solved with data. Where it misses its targets, which bikes break and whether it pays to check them, and a former employee who left in 2013 but was still logging in every day in 2022. -
Data Science · 29 Sept 2026 What really decides how much CO2 a car emits? I looked at 7,385 cars to find out what best predicts a car's CO2 emissions. The answer turned out to be simple, but a pattern hiding in my very first chart took me a while to understand. -
Finance · 29 Sept 2026 What is Coca-Cola actually worth? One semester, three students, six Excel workbooks and a lot of VBA. We built the tools of financial modelling one by one, then used them to value Coca-Cola. Our models said $20 to $36 a share. The market said $72. -
Business · 29 Sept 2026 Which customers actually make you money? A company can make a healthy profit while almost four in ten of its customers lose it money. I built a made-up medical supplier to show how it happens, and the culprit turned out to be a box of gloves. -
Fintech · 29 Sept 2026 Firi: how a Norwegian crypto exchange won people's trust In 2017, most Norwegians saw crypto as risky and confusing, and banks didn't want to touch it. A look at how Firi grew to over 240,000 users anyway, how it makes money, and what could go wrong. -
Finance · 29 Sept 2026 You are a cash flow Finance values everything as the money it will produce over time. Point that lens at yourself, add Norwegian tax, and you see why business owners save through their companies, and why the tax isn't lower, only later.
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