I’m soon coming up on 6 months of unemployment. Half a year of trying to be an entrepreneur full-time. I still haven’t made it, unfortunately. I have however learnt a ton. This post is a reflection on my entrepreneurial journey thus far and a discussion of how I formed my entrepreneurial meta-strategy. Learning how to entrepreneur Before starting my entrepreneurial journey, I figured there were more or less correct ways of doing things. ...
Recent life I recently found myself with more free time and less direction than I’ve had since joining the prestigious ranks of real adults sometime in my early 20s. It’s been fun. I spent the first week doing absolutely nothing productive. I tented for 4 days somewhere in the forest in southern Sweden while attending a techno festival, spent a combined 20 hours on trains to and from Cologne in order to attend a Denzel Curry concert with an old friend, and started reading a new book, Growth, so far so good! ...
Starting as an intern Exactly 3 years ago, on the 13th of June 2022, I started my internship at Spotify. At the time I was based in Stockholm, on my way to finishing up a master’s degree in machine learning at KTH (hah!). Spotify had been my dream company for a while before that. It was a tech product I genuinely loved using as a consumer, a huge success story closely affilliated with my own university, and it was chock full of cool engineering and ML feats obvious to any tech-literate user of the app. ...