Finding Clarity in the Darkness
After returning to full-time work, I started noticing how little time we actually have for ourselves — not because time disappears, but because it gets taken, fragmented, and consumed before we can do...
25 Mars 4min
How the Norse Imagined the Beginning of Everything
Before the world existed, Norse mythology places only three things: fire in the south, ice in the north, and between them an infinite abyss called Ginnungagap. From the meeting of those two forces, th...
8 Mars 5min
19 Swedish Idioms You'll Actually Hear in Real Life
Swedish idioms follow a pattern you'll start noticing everywhere: two words, connected by "och" — and — creating a rhythm that's very specific to the language. But if nobody explains them, you'll hear...
2 Mars 7min
Sweden and Argentina: More in Common Than You'd Think
Two countries that couldn't look more different on paper: one in the frozen north, one stretching toward Patagonia. But dig a little into the history and something surprising emerges — a Swedish archi...
8 Feb 11min
9 Things You Actually Need to Live in Sweden Long Term
If you're thinking about moving to Sweden, this episode is the one I wish someone had played for me before I packed my bags. After more than ten years living here, I can tell you that the biggest chal...
11 Jan 5min
11 Premises That Got Me Through the Hardest Year of My Life
2025 was the hardest year I've had in a long time. I lost people I loved. I lost my job. And somewhere in the middle of all that, I found myself going back to a set of ideas — not mantras, not motivat...
21 Dec 202510min
Eratosthenes: How One Man Measured the Earth With a Stick
In 240 BC, a man in Alexandria read about a well in southern Egypt where the sun hit the bottom at noon on the solstice — meaning the sun was directly overhead. He wondered if the same would happen wh...
27 Nov 20254min
10 Tips to Get a Job in Sweden (From Someone Who Did It the Hard Way)
The Swedish job market looks fair and transparent from the outside. It's more complicated than that. In this episode I share ten practical things I've learned after more than a decade working in Swede...
16 Nov 20255min
