It’s been a week since the Swedish general election and although I am interested in politics I don’t look forward to weeks of negotiations about who can negotiate with whom or can’t be in the same room as someone else. In Swedish we say there’ll be a shitload of “käbbel”, and I can’t stand it. There has to be a better way.

Maybe send one representative from each party out on a parking lot with an iron bar and, well, solve it. Or play chess about. Or…checks notes, what’s the latest hype again…let AI deal with it.

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Is it only me or is it not a short-coming of regular weather apps that they only provide the weather for a period of time for a single place at a time. What if you’re constantly moving, then you’d like the forecast to be for the location where you will be at a given point in time, right?

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You may have heard about todo-lists, things that you or a team plan to do organized in a list after priority. A todont-list is the opposite, it’s a list of items that you plan to either not do or stop doing.

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In Engineering Management circles this is an eternal question. Once you leave your position as an IC, do you stop coding with the risk that the skills that got you to where you are decline over time, or do you keep trying to mix your management work with coding with the possible drawback that you don’t spend enough time on your management tasks?

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