Monocultured

Four years ago I started in on a 2 year full time UX design/research vocational degree, and at the same time I started Hintlab as a collaborative platform to do some more experimental stuff.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/people-living-in-democracies-autocracies?

Pics from the Banray gallery The BanRay.eu project has been up for a few weeks. (1) I made it to accompany a sticker design that you put up if you want to limit network wearables (such as Metas Rayban) on your premises.

After an unscheduled hiatus I’ve activated the monocultured.com portfolio again – and this time I have something which is scalable and easy to maintain!

I’ve done a thing: BanRay.eu – it’s about nipping a bad idea in the bud.

Talking to a friend about our AI use, I came to a realisation about what role Claude has assumed in my life: It’s an idle clicker game for me to feel productive.

Back in 2001 I made a Relationship Evaluation Form™ as PDF you could print and fill out for your ex.

I’m starting this post in Ermoupoli, Syros, where Petter and Alexandra kindly has lent us their house.

Today is my first day renting a desk in a co-working space.

So, I started a company again: Matepo Research AB.

The first time I used the Plano F0 sketch pad was when I was studying in Karlstad, if I recall correctly.

The other day I had a chat with an AI – as one does these days – asking for suggestions on how to build a robotic platform to exterminate the slugs that are infesting our garden.

Me and my brother travelled to Japan in May 2025, primarily to visit the Expo2025 exhibition in Osaka, but we also made a detour to Tokyo.

Song is Man, by Appetite, Free Music Archive (CC BY-NC-SA) I recently got back after short of two weeks in Japan, where me and my brother first went to Osaka for the Expo 2025, and then Tokyo.

Half of Sweden has been coughing since last fall – whatever virus the aliens have release is really doing a number on us.

Crossposted at Linkedin, which is my most active community outside of NFL and Reddit.

One major reason that rich democracies are more stable is that capitalist development disperses human, financial, and organizational resources away from the state, generating countervailing power in society.

Someone over att Near Future Laboratory mentioned the Bicameral Mind and off I went down the rabbit hole.

I’m slowly emerging from New Years hibernation and a trip to Greece.

Same procedure as last year: I’m listing my reading and abandoned reading in chronological order.

As I’m moving into the design and research field at the same time as it’s being reshaped by both a recession and GenAI, I’ve been thinking hard about what skills I’m bringing with me into my adopted field – as well as what skills might differentiate me fr…

Fire is a kind of magic to a child, and some of us never grow out of a fascination with it.

After ten years as a project manager at KKV GBG, I’m officially unemployed!

I never thought I’d be sentimental about the auteuric vision of creativity, but here we are.

Robots helping out with homework.

I’m trying to dip my toes, get a foot in, dunk my head and generally jump bodily into the sea of UX careers, and beyond the obvious stuff – practice the craft, do good work, go to meetups – I’m trying out a gimmick to get some conversations going: A limit…

I re-read my Laborator post the other day and one paragraph tied into something else I’ve been reading lately: Any communal project is a marathon rather than a sprint: It’s important to be able to step back and trust your collaborators to follow the plans…

My previous phone was getting long in the tooth, and there was no way to get call recording to work on it, so I bit the bullet the second I saw that Nothing 2A was supported call recording out of the box.

I sleep with a notebook next to my bed, and sometimes I wake up with an idea, more often a turn of phrase or a slogan, and write it down.

Oik oik fellow piglets!

“My personal worry is that for a long time, we sought to diversify the voices — you know, who is telling the stories?

A while back I calculated my computational power according to screen estate, offering the suggestion that the more I can see (up to a point) at the same time, the more function I can extract from my computers information systems.

My first internship at RISE is coming to an end, and with that I’m going back to school for two more courses this year – before heading out for a 16 week intership somewhere (Suggestions?

In the fall of 2022 I began studying UX Design at IT-högskolan.

When I started studying UX Design in the long ago time-before-time (fall of 2022) I promised myself that I’d abandon all other projects and cut back on distracting reading – giving myself time and energy to focus on the studies.

The title phrase and sentiment is taken from plagiarist & internet commentator Ryan Brodericks newsletter Garbage Day, but it might as well be one of the conclusions of an Adam Curtis documentary.

I’m back from a short vacation to Side (Turkey) which I spent reading and drinking beer.

My thoughts feel dated even before typing them up, but it’s spring of 2023 and the world has its panties in a bunch over ChatGPT and other Natural Language Processing AI:s, and I just want to put my scratch in the goal post for future reference.

Since I’m fascinated by rituals, secular and otherwise, I might have taken the whole “short nails as a way to salvation” thing a bit too far.

Actor Lewin Lloyd in Hid Dark Materials on the left, quick Midjourney v4 prompt on right We just finished watching the first season of His dark materials – a great show based on a great adventure book – and I was struck of how the look reminded me of the…

Image from Wikimedia There’s a hypothesis of the Cortical homunculus – that our brains map motor control and sensory input in different proportion to their size.

Once again, I’m at the beginning of a new year, writing a post which isn’t scheduled to publish till a year hence.

Earlier today, I took my lovely girlfriend for lunch, and at first we had raw oysters and then mussels & chips.

Sort-of borrowing the title from one of Randall Monroes books, it serves to remind us that there’s still relatively little that we know about ourselves on a fundamental physical and psychological level.

Nearly 50 years ago, long before smartphones and social media, the social critic Lewis Mumford put a name to the way that complex technological systems offer a share in their benefits in exchange for compliance.

Midjourney: technical blueprint of a living city, style of simon stålhag, playful The geeky version of crystal healing might be the nootropic stack – mixes of different pills and powders you take to effect cognition & memory.

When I learned about DALL•E last year it seemed like magic – basically casting spells at a computer and getting images out – and now there’s Midjourney and Stable Diffusion (the latter which I can now run on my M1 laptop) and overnight there’s a whole eco…

Lifting your eyes from your daily problems, you might see the edifices of human power stuctures outlined among the clouds, so all-encompassing that you don’t reflect on them most of the time.

In a weeks time I’m starting a two year full-time course to become a UX designer, at iths.

I’m typing this in the stillness between the stabs of acute lumbago.