Mathias Sundin - The angry optimist

📚 I read 106 books in 2022, here are the best five

I thought zeppelins was a short-term experiment that consisted of the Hindenburg, and not much more. Boy, was I wrong! A book about airships vs airplanes is the best book of the year. I am as surprised as you are.

Draknästet

🌏 Småhetsvansinne i Draknästet

Världen behöver inte fler burkar att lägga tandborsten i, en kran för att lyfta upp fikabordet i luften eller ännu en energidryck. Entreprenörerna i Draknästet borde ha fokus på att göra världen bättre och satsa mycket större.

Democracy

🌏 A hack to solve all of humanity's major problems

If all people lived in democracies most of humanity's major problems wouldn't exist or be dramatically smaller.

Elon Musk

👎 The case against Elon Musk buying Twitter

Elon Musk risks getting bogged down in battles with politicians and regulators. This means he will have less time to spend on the super important missions of Tesla and SpaceX.

Twitter

👍 The optimistic case for Twitter under Elon Musk

Under Musk Twitter could become a very large social media that sets a new standard for transparency and provides free speech to millions of people now living behind dictatorial firewalls.

Tesla

🚗 What will be in Elon Musk's third master plan?

Will it include a goal to replace all physical human labor? And a section on Neuralink could be included, even though Elon Musk didn't mention the brain-machine company beforehand.

The Unmodern World

🕊️ There is a way to end all wars

A number of political scientists have come to the same conclusion: democracies do not go to war against each other.

The Unmodern World

🗳️ Time to unite the democratic countries of the world

To accelerate the positive progress that democracy brings and to reduce the influence and harmful effects of dictatorships, the democratic countries of the world should cooperate in a new organization, an Alliance of Democracies.

Democracy

💸 The Dictator's Handbook and why Magnitsky sanctions could sink Putin

Dictators don't rule alone. Use the rules that keep dictators in power and target the group keeping Putin in place with super hard Magnitsky sanctions and we will undermine his brutal dictatorship.

Italy

🍕 We are staying in Italy for five months - part of the Airbnb trend

We saw the chance to skip the long and dark Swedish winter and headed for southern Italy. Little did we know we were part of a strong Airbnb trend.

Joe Rogan

🎙️ Is Joe Rogan the Martin Luther of our time?

Both went from almost unknown to major figures in just a few years. They both did that by being early, and skilled, adopters of new technology.

Tesla

🥇 8 reasons Tesla will be the world's largest company — ever

How big will Tesla be? Nutty big. Like nothing we've seen before. Here are eight good reasons why.

Books

📚 The five best books I read in 2021

I read 95 books in 2021. Here are the five best -- and bunch of really good runner-ups.

Africa

🌍 Investing in Africa is the choice of the fact-based optimist

Africa is becoming more democratic, richer, healthier and more tech-savvy. Almost all of the world's population growth during this century will be in Africa. This continent is the choice of the smart investor. Norrsken is now raising a $200M Africa Tech fund.

Elon Musk

🏆 Elon Musk: Humanity's MVP

Is there any human being doing more good for humanity than Elon Musk? I don't think so. But his greatest achievement is not Tesla, SpaceX and the other companies. It is something else, even more important.

Svenska

📡 Tips till nya digitaliseringsministern: Satsa på Starlink

Nye digitaliseringsminister:, Khashayar Farmanbar, borde vända blicken mot himlen. Där finns lösningen till att täcka hela Sverige med snabbt bredband. Nästa år kommer Starlink till Sverige. Svenska staten borde vara redo då.

Svenska

💻 Ett lifehack möjliggjort av Airbnb och internetförtroende

Tack vare Airbnb, EU, Duolingo och internet har vi kunnat skippa den svenska vintern och bor istället i södra Italien över vintern.

COVID-19

🦠 The search for the origin of COVID-19 went viral

Without Twitter and internet detectives using it to share their findings, we probably would know a lot less about the possible origin of COVID-19.

Green Tech

💡 Turning off the light is the wrong symbol for stopping climate change

Why we must say goodbye to apocalyptic environmentalism.

Expo 2020

😒 False choices at Expo 2020 in Dubai

The sustainability pavilion at Expo 2020 teaches kids they have to choose between things they love to create a sustainable future. That is false. They don't have to choose big or small animals or mobile phones or rainforests.

Svenska

📰 Diskussionen om negativa nyheter på infantil nivå

Infantila argument från Värmlands Folkblad i diskussionen om negativa nyhetsmedia visar att förståelsen för vad som är balanserade nyheter är låg inom nyhetsmedia.

Space

👩‍🚀 From L.A. to Tokyo in one hour - via space

From one side of the globe to the other, in just one hour - via space! It sounds like science fiction, but it is becoming science fact.

Autonomous vehicles

✈️ All vehicles will be driven by computers

The most unrealistic thing in Star Trek and Star Wars are the human pilots. Eventually all vehicles will be driven by computers. Humans will only drive for fun on a track, probably with an AI keeping them safe.

Space

🚀 Rocket measuring contest

SpaceX's Starship is just mind-blowingly big.

Tesla

🚘 Tesla's $25.000 car should be named Tesla Q $TSLAQ

TSLAQ is a group of naive pessimistic Tesla short-sellers, that lost billions of dollars because of that. They are actively trying to make Tesla fail. The $25.000 car will be Tesla's best-selling vehicle, and will finally crush the short-sellers. Let's name it Tesla Q.