Blog: Archive
- What’s the Point of Pen and Paper? 5200 years ago, the Sumerians wrote on clay tablets with styli. Today, the younger generation can barely grasp a writing utensil.
- The Magic of Music Part 2: Faster & More Furious: In addition to emotion and cognition, did you know that music also interacts with our motor pathways? In the second part of this series, I crank up the volume another notch, presenting some more brain-engaging music for working and writing.
- When (Working) Life Gives You Lemons: Norway has one of the highest employment rates in Europe. That does, however, make little difference for the hundreds of thousands who fail to get a job—many of whom are young people who find themselves stuck on the outside, hopelessly banging the doors of the labor market.
- The Nuisance of Orthography: To the untrained eye, it might seem like a lawless Wild West system in which commas and dashes and colons are thrown around like bullets in a saloon. But believe it or not, there are rules. And norms. And conventions. It’s okay to get confused.
- “Letter From Oslo”: There’s no denying the fact that economic differences continue to increase—also in Norway.
- When Science Gets Twisted: When even research as a concept gets watered down, what’s left for us to trust?
- Reclaim the Em Dash! The topic of this post may seem a bit nerdy, but it’s a debate that touches all of us who write in our everyday lives—whether it’s e-mails, social media content, school assignments, or prose. (See what I did there?)
- “Enshittification” and Contentless Content: I can guarantee this post is completely free from pop-ups, ads, and AI-generated content. Also a deeper meaning.
- The Magic of Music: Can music really improve work performance? If you want to learn some fun facts about music and the brain, and hear my personal recommendations for background, work, and writing music, read more here.
- Wuthering Heights, Brain Rot, and Non-Guilty Pleasures: Are Gen Z too dumb to read literary classics, or have our expectations reached unreasonable heights?
- The Rise (and Fall?) of AI in the Modern World of Writing: Without a human at the helm, it’s easy to get lost in the ocean of slop.