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Happy New Year!

It has passed midnight here in Sweden, which means I would like to wish each and everyone of you a very Happy New Year! I am very excited about the new year and what is lined up and possibly even more...

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Webinar: Integrating a Lightroom Gallery with your WordPress Website

A while ago (read: a year or so ago), I did a free webinar on how to integrate a Lightroom gallery into a page on a WordPress website. This used to live over on the Bernskiold Media website, but since...

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Bye, bye Google Apps

For several months, I have been thinking about the alternatives to using Google Apps for my main company email as I haven’t really been fully happy with its reliability, especially in terms of the...

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Don’t Expect Everyone to Do Everything For You

Recently I have found myself complaining loudly (mostly on Twitter, but also cryptically on Facebook) that some people seem to expect that others do everything for them and that this way, they will...

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Getting Back To Recording

A few years ago, the volume of training videos that I created was pretty high. Over the past year and a half, that volume has drastically gone down as I have concentrated my efforts on my business more...

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Why I Chose Basecamp for Project Management

Earlier this year I searched high and low for a project management system that would be my best friend and work well for me. I used to keep everything in OmniFocus which I use for my own tasks, but...

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Instacode Makes Code Look Beautiful

It’s always hard to make graphical thumbnails when all you have is code. Thanks for Instacode, this is much easier. Just paste the code in the box, apply some effects and in no time, you have a pretty...

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Stop Wasting My Time

I’ve written before about an apparent expectations some people have about someone else doing all their work for them and how odd that is, looking at whom it is coming from in the case of my rant....

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Internal Reporting is Good for Small Consultant Companies Too

In most of the world there are solid laws around book keeping with heavy rules and regulations about what you must and must not do. Most people also find this utterly boring and will be quite...

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Speaking About My Last 10 Years as a Businessman

As part of my University degree, I am taking three courses in German and as a part of the courses you have to give a few talks  of around 10 minutes each. Since the entire class is made up by fellow...

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Planning: Where the process is the value.

Some people mock planning saying that planning just takes time and doesn’t add value, but creates a plan, a guess, up front which you then need to stick to. I disagree, at least in part. Planning is...

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Designating Your Workspace. Separation for Better Focus

Procrastination. This is something I battle with every day. I know that I am not alone either. Student or professional. Consultant or employee. Manager or not. It is hard to stay focused when we...

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Change Perspective to Win at Communication

In all organizations, in all hierarchical levels, communication seems to be a problem. Let’s leave aside the marketing for a while and focus just on person-to-person interaction and that type of...

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Don’t Start a Company For A Fancy Job Title

Reading the title of this post, I am certain most of you think that this must be some kind of utopia. Maybe so, but sometimes I get the feeling that this is just what happens—and it is not a recipe for...

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Two Excellent Books in Behavioral Economics

I think I have recommended these two books before when they come out on this very blog, but I’m repeating the recommendation today mainly as a heads up to fellow classmates in my Microeconomics course....

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The Secret to Getting More Done: Using “Dead Time” Effectively

What sets truly productive people apart from their counterparts is not working more, it is working smarter. In this post, I want to highlight the difference a simple list can make on your productivity....

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Speaking for Moderata Studenter about Business and Studies

This Tuesday I was invited to Moderata Studenter Göteborg (a political student organization for one of the biggest political parties in Sweden) as a guest speaker to talk about my experiences about...

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Constant Learning is Crucial to Success: Read, read, read.

In no field or industry can you get by without constantly having to keep yourself updated. Arguably, there is no better way to success than learning new things and upping the ante in knowledge. For...

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The Internet—Don’t Blame the Medium

Once in a while debates tend to blame events on the internet. It may be convenient to blame the internet for riots and more but the convenience is worth nothing when it is just a smoke screen. In...

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Adobe Creative Day in Stockholm

This Tuesday I was up in Stockholm for Adobe Nordic’s fantastic Creative Day: A full day filled with inspirational talks from excellent creatives. If you didn’t get to go, you are in luck, all of the...

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