“I am sorry for the length of my letter, but I had not the time to write a short one.” (Blaise Pascal)

Another thing Eric Raymond said: The greatest moments in life aren’t those where the universe confirms a belief you’ve always held. The greatest momen…

Just to stir up emotions, I’ll sometimes suggest that Denmark drop Danish as official language, and instead adopt English. It usually works. People ge…

Went to the post office the other day to send a large letter to the US. The poor post office worker had to literally fill up the entire envelope with …

Heard Eric Raymond give a talk today. One interesting point: “People will hold on to their property, as long as the benefit of owning that property ou…

It’s hard not to see a parallel between the mental shift that September 11 implied, and the mental shift that’s been going on in the computing busines…

Lots of people are busy whining about Microsoft being the big, evil monopolist, and if it wasn’t because they forced their software down our throats, …

“Commercial” is often used as an invective, to mean that something’s bad taste, stupid, or wrong. At least in my country. But the people that do that,…

Ask Bjørn Hansen sent me a link to this Entrepreneurial Deathtraps speech. Not bad to be aware of these traps. I’ve definitely seen quite a bit of the…