V · Person
I build small companies
and write what I learn.
Story
I grew up in a small town in southern Sweden, the kind of place where you build because there is nothing to consume. I taught myself to code on a borrowed Thinkpad and never quite stopped.
I've spent the last decade between Stockholm and Lisbon — building things that try to take a small amount of friction out of how people work. First as a designer, then as an engineer, now as an operator running three companies and the small team around each.
The current chapter is about AI. Not as a product category, but as a kind of leverage that lets two or three serious people build what used to need fifty. I think that shift is the most interesting thing happening in software, and I am trying to be honest in public about what I am learning while it happens.
Outside of work: I run slowly, cook deliberately, and read a lot of architecture and a little philosophy. I am married and we have a small daughter who already knows the word "ship."
Principles
Six things I keep coming back to.
Operate, don't launch
A bet is a five-year posture, not a moment.
Simpler than yesterday
Cleverness is a tax future-me has to pay.
Write to think
If I cannot write the argument, I do not have one.
Small teams, long horizons
Two good people and time beat ten and urgency.
Customers, then strangers
Make ten people love it before a thousand know it.
Quiet leverage
The best AI work will not look like AI work.
Beliefs about work
I believe the best work in the next decade will be done in small teams with long horizons, using AI as a quiet kind of leverage — not a feature to ship.
I believe in customers over funding, durability over momentum, honesty over polish, and writing as the cheapest tool we have for thinking clearly.
I believe a company is a piece of design, and that the people inside it deserve the same care as the product they ship.