This section is meant to be my personal blog. I’ll probably write some personal thoughts here from time to time. However, I’m generally a quiet, no-nonsense kind of person, so it probably won’t be often. On the other hand, it’s possible that selected entries from old journals will be copied here at some point.
Back in Norway
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A year ago, I quit my job at Google. It’s taken a long time to settle everything there and finish my move back to Norway, but now I’m finally mostly settled in, so perhaps it’s time to write a few things about what I’m up to now, here in Alta.
Den siste dagen faren min slo meg til blods
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Dette barndomsminnet er noe jeg har båret på hele livet, og aldri egentlig snakket om før. Man snakker jo ikke om slikt. Men det å holde det inne i meg i så mange år, aldri la det komme ut, har også vært skadelig på sin egen måte. En dag må jeg jo få det ut av kroppen, og det begynner vel å bli på tide. Det har allerede klart å ødelegge en relativt stor del av livet mitt, hvorfor la det ødelegge stort mer.
Game development
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I’ve taken a part-time position in a small Northern Norwegian game development company, Miksapix Interactive. This is in part because they make games where the Sámi culture is in focus, and in part because it lets me do things I don’t get to do at Google. I think it could be fun.
Wishful thinking in politics
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Dette er en post om politisk (u)kultur. Hvis du er nordmann og bare lurer på hvilket norsk parti jeg ville foreslått å stemme på, kan du lese litt om det her.
Most people who get into politics, do it with some illusion that, if we just do this and that thing, everything will be great and everyone will be happy. (That’s pretty much unavoidable in a world where people choose for themselves whether to get into politics. If you don’t have illusions, then you typically either won’t want to be a politician, or you’ll be a grey, boring politician that nobody else wants to vote for.) Then the biggest difference between politicians and other dreamers, is that any wishful thinking on their part tends to also become everyone else’s problem at some point. This is one reason I’ve often been curious about what exactly makes politicians believe the things they do. I’ve sometimes wished I had the opportunity to just ask a range of politicians some hard questions about their beliefs. But for that to be really useful, I would probably have to do it in a particular way.
New Q&A Section
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I’ve now created a Question and Answers section, where people can send in questions (anonymously if they want), and I can post answers. We’ll have to see how it works out, I suppose, but if you’re interested, go ahead and try it out…
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