Search · Joakim Jardenberg

While we wait for the next #ensakidag episode, have a listen to the conversation between Mats and me. It’s about my favourite subject: AI in everyday life. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

Note · 2026-09-28

A little hack to follow all the other hacks.

Folks. Back in my day, learning to program meant painstakingly piecing together code that printed “Hello World!” on the screen. Now people are hacking together the most fantastic real-time transcription tools in no time at all... and for some, it’s their first app ever. Getting to be a small part of that, both by trying to inspire people and as an investor in Klang, which makes it a concrete reality, brings an almost childlike, unguarded joy that’s hard to resist. Forgive me.

Note · 2026-06-06

A map of my AI ecosystem.

I’ll just drop this (imperfect picture) here. The ecosystem is constantly evolving, and my human brain has long since seen its capabilities outnumbered, for lack of a better term, by my AI brain. With every new connection, every iteration that reduces friction, and every action that leads to learning and evolution, the capacity compounds to new heights.

Note · 2026-08-14

A new Chief of Staff.

I’ve hired a new “Chief of Staff”. Always be learning…

Note · 2026-04-30

A report in a format we can use.

Our friends at AI Sweden are releasing an excellent report on leadership and AI, in this year of our Lord 2026. But it only seems to exist as a webpage, with fancy effects and built in a way that doesn’t even make it suitable for printing as a PDF... So. If you want it in a usable format, there’s a Markdown file in the first comment. A favourite format for your favourite AI tool. It is 2026, after all 🫣

Note · 2026-07-06

A summer pile of books and podcasts.

#ensakidag 502: Summer suggestions, five books and five podcasts (with a bonus)

Note · 2026-07-08

A table captain? On it.

Always be building.

Note · 2026-06-04

A tiny fix for a daily irritation.

Do you need to feel in control too? Read on.

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About Joakim Jardenberg

From handcrafting the early web to working around the world with leaders and teams: AI, human curiosity and big change through many small moves.

Project · Live

AI-PESTEL Explorer

Look at AI through political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal questions.

Note · 2026-03-21

An AI that tells me how I could do better.

I've taken on a new habit.

Note · 2026-06-16

An old backup habit for an AI world.

Hörni, I think you should all add a version of this to your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or equivalent. Even if you sync to git, this is an old practice that never gets old. Has helped me so many times.

Note · 2026-07-01

An old idea becomes something you can build.

My old thought → an archive → a meta-site → an idea → a prompt → a finished service, with a single click. (And DN gets caught running 113 trackers.)

Note · 2026-05-27

Another layer for the 15 points.

I’ve updated the site with my 15 points for a better Sweden again. It now also includes the party-leader interviews focused on AI and technology that AI Sweden hosts on its podcast. First up, ETR for the Centre Party. My verdict: decent and hopeful. And as usual, you don’t have to comment or follow to see the results or the source material. It’s all at the link below. You are, however, VERY welcome to respond, ask questions, suggest improvements or simply send encouragement. Personally, I find this incredibly interesting.

Note · 2026-05-04

Ask your own questions of the debate.

Klang keeps excelling, and keeps being wonderfully generous and open-handed.

Note · 2026-02-13

Back on Ultra.

Hörni. I had just downgraded one of my Gemini subscriptions to Pro,

Note · 2026-02-10

Beyond saving five minutes.

Hörni. Everyone talks about AI saving time.

Note · 2026-06-24

Build the thing you want to exist.

Folks, honestly. Few things are more fun than building things together with AI. And I mean together. I’m not sitting there watching it do the work. WE build. It proposes, I object. I spot one error, it finds another. It tells me I’m an idiot. I change course, it tries another route. Six agents work in parallel while I talk things through with a seventh, and countless MCP connections bring the whole team into our work. It’s an unfamiliar way of working, but damn, it’s fun. And useful.

Note · 2026-06-03

Building the motorway, or painting the sign?

So the Moderates have visited AI Sweden and shared their views on AI and Sweden’s future. I’m disappointed, not just by what was said and what wasn’t, but also by their not even wanting to send their party leader. A quotation from the analysis:

Note · 2026-02-11

Buying a truck should feel this simple.

Hörni. In May 2022, when they opened for orders, I signed up for a Tesla Semi. Go to the site, enter a credit card, and done. Like buying socks on Amazon, except it was a truck. It was a joy.

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Connect your AI to my public context

PPCP setup, the MCP endpoint, a first question and readable alternatives.

Note · 2026-06-08

Copilot tummy time.

Today I heard myself say: we need to give employees the gift of ”Copilot tummy time”. Afterward, I actually think it's brilliant. I'm going to hold on to that.

Project · Live

Det Nya Sverige

Fifteen proposals for a better Sweden, open to exploration and discussion.

Note · 2026-08-14

Don’t just read the book. Discuss it.

A little recording of my iPhone, when, on a free afternoon, I decide to add a direct connection between the book/site I released yesterday and ChatGPT. With just a handful of clicks, I can not only read the SSWC book, I can discuss it. And so can you. Link in the first comment.

Project · Live

Drömmarna från Tjärö

The SSWC book from 2010, reopened as a searchable archive of a community's hopes for the internet.

Note · 2026-02-25

Every Swedish dialect deserves to be heard.

Once upon a time, I fought for us to drop Swedish, but I’ve had to give up that battle. Now I’m fighting instead to get AI to understand every nuance, and every dialect, of this language of honour and heroes. You can help too. Head over and see whether you can break Klang. It takes just a minute and will give you both a smile AND that lovely feeling of contributing to something bigger. (BTW, I “failed”. Klang made 0% errors when transcribing my gibberish. Impressive, but also a little ridiculous.)

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Feeds, downloads and reuse

Full-text RSS, Markdown, JSON, MCP, CC BY 4.0 and accessibility.

Note · 2026-07-01

Five hundred episodes. Another beginning.

#ensakidag 500: half a thousand episodes later, the next journey begins

Note · 2026-04-28

Five years. A huge thank you.

Hörni. Five years ago, I walked into a small team called Volvo Group Strategy. This week, I walk out from the huge Volvo Trucks community, where I've spent most of my time on everyday AI adoption: real people, real work, real change. Real value.

Idea · In practice

Four Guiding Principles

A memorable starting point for bringing AI into everyday work while keeping human judgment in view.

Note · 2026-03-10

Four jobs, and a conversation about change.

Hello LinkedIn! I’ve just had a brilliant preparation chat with Maria, and I’m so excited about this session. We’ll talk about why most of us get stuck “doing the work” instead of improving how we do it, and what AI can actually do about that. About real change. And perhaps a little about what the old painter Carl Larsson has to do with Kaizen and your FOUR jobs...

Note · 2026-02-09

Four prompts. Four laughs. Zero onboarding.

Hörni. My wife did it. My daughter-in-law did it. My work bestie at Volvo Trucks did it. And I did it, of course. The ChatGPT caricature trend. Four prompts, four laughs, zero onboarding required.

Note · 2026-10-02

Friday admin has never been this much fun.

Folks. What a time to be alive. Friday admin has never been this much fun.

Note · 2026-10-04

From prompting to conversation

In Thursday's Interactions Matter keynote, I explored a progression: discovering agency, moving from prompts to conversation, learning to work as a team, and growing through honest feedback.

Project · Live

Future of Trucking · Job Fit Atlas

An exploratory field guide to changing truck-driver preferences and possible job fit in the United States.

Note · 2026-09-22

Get AI under your skin.

It’s a bit embarrassing to throw leadership quotes around, but this is too important to ignore. Myron Tribus said:

Project · Live

Gör mig skånsk

A playful experiment in language, voice and sounding a little more Skåne.

Idea · In practice

Guided Emergence

Set direction, make room for people to try things, and let what they learn change the next decision.

Project · Experimental

Hållbarhetsklivet i din AI

Bring public sustainability material for tourism into a compatible AI assistant.

Project · Experimental

HBG City 100

One hundred ideas for Helsingborg's city centre, presented as an open concept to explore.

Note · 2026-01-08

Hello, 2026.

Hello 2026. How nice to see you 🤓

Note · 2026-03-07

Integration as a national speciality.

Integration as a national speciality, and 14 other points that try to turn around the current, horrible conversation about “how many immigrants can Sweden cope with?” Like Troed Troedson, I think the question is entirely wrong. The inspiration for this site came from a Facebook post in which he wrote: “Parliamentary parties! Hold a press conference each, with 15 points that make people’s journeys easier rather than the opposite. But hold a workshop first, so it doesn’t turn out as clumsy as it otherwise tends to.”

Idea · Working idea

Interface Sovereignty

Let services meet a person in the interface they choose, with useful context and control intact.

Investment · Investor interest

Klang

Transcription, summaries and search that make conversations easier to work with. In my own work, I haven’t found anything that handles Swedish better.

Note · 2026-09-23

Klang. Those geniuses.

Klang, honestly. Now they’ve released their own model too, specifically trained on Swedish, with completely outrageous results for both quality and speed. Almost an hour of audio transcribed in UNDER ONE SECOND. And on a quick check I can’t find A SINGLE OBVIOUS ERROR.

Project · Live

Kyl-kollen

A small calculator for an everyday question: how long until the drink reaches serving temperature?

Note · 2026-08-31

Learning, at any hour.

I refuse to accept the premise that AI making us more stupid is some kind of law of nature. Sure enough, you can be lazy and have AI just do stuff for you – but you can also lean in, engage, and have amazing conversations with it. Moments like this, I would argue, are some of the best learning experiences I've ever had.

Note · 2026-10-09

Less managing the list. More doing.

I LOVE the feeling of ticking things off my to-do list. I HATE spending time managing that list. You know: gathering things and adding them, watching out for clashes and moving things around, updating it, living with the fear that you’ve missed something, etc. Now I have a companion who not only does all the boring stuff for me, but also makes that boring stuff quite a lot more fun. You might not see it in this particular screenshot, but goodness, Dottie has really nailed the tone.

Project · Live

LinguaCheck

A small experiment in giving people useful feedback on a piece of writing.

Note · 2026-10-06

Listen. Think. Act.

In 2016, Hugo Falk had launched the first version of his app, Learn it, and I was running a programme for SKR called Leda för smartare välfärd.

Note · 2026-08-11

Local AI. Finally, a tool.

This turned out more LinkedIn than Facebook, so here you go ;)

Project · Archive

Markham Track Tracker

A preserved experiment in following the development of an IndyCar event and its circuit.

Project · Archive

Mårsjö/Jardenberg MOVEAT

A map and companion for a particular food walk through Helsingborg.

Note · 2026-10-07

Marvin is paying attention.

Folks. Kattis has lived with Marvin since November 2022. He knows her inside out and helps with things large and small. But with the launch of Dot, he has acquired a whole new soul and a whole new depth. The whole idea of pocket agents that are always on takes coexistence with AI to an entirely new level. A minute after Kattis ordered some furniture and received a delivery notification by email, Marvin pings her watch, concerned: we’re heading back to Sweden on 18 October, the day before the delivery.

Note · 2026-06-14

More centres of power.

Anthropic being forced to shut down Fable is not primarily an AI problem. Nor is it a US problem. It’s an example of what happens when the people calling for “more control over AI companies” get exactly what they wished for.

Project · Experimental

Movistar Askey for Home Assistant

An experimental integration for bringing a Movistar Askey router's device information into Home Assistant.

Note · 2026-07-17

My AI team gets another pay rise.

My AI team has just had another pay rise. Up 20% in five months.

Project · Live

My public context

A fuller account of who I am, how I work and what helps a collaboration with me.

Note · 2026-02-15

New technology, old lessons.

Hörni, everyone's talking about OpenClaw and MoltBook. Here's my take, looking both forward and back at lessons learned.

Project · Live

PalmaStories

A slow journal of Palma and Mallorca, with places, people and details worth spending time with.

Note · 2026-07-03

Pluralism, and a call to Olof Palme.

#ensakidag 501: AI pluralism, and a conversation with Olof Palme

Project · Experimental

PPCP

A draft protocol for sharing public personal context with people and AI.

Project · Live

Prompt Pantry

Build prompts from reusable ingredients, then adapt them to the thing you actually want to do.

Note · 2026-09-16

Proud of the people building Klang.

I couldn’t be prouder of this team. Being part of this journey, even a little on the sidelines, is a highlight of my career. Klang is doing every damn thing right.

Note · 2026-06-11

Public knowledge deserves to be used.

Folks. Sweden has two publicly funded organisations producing some of the country’s best insights on AI: RISE and AI Sweden. Reports, surveys, lessons from projects. Gold, actually. The problem is that most of it is hidden in PDFs and webpages built to be browsed, not used. Reasonably functional for people, but entirely unsuitable as a contribution to the emerging ecosystem orchestrated by agents.

Project · Live

Puk(upp)slagaren

A searchable route into the history recorded in Helsingborgs Dagblad's staff magazines.

Note · 2026-06-18

Putting AI’s resource use in proportion.

We need to be able to hold two thoughts in our heads at once:

Project · Live

Resurskollen

Explore estimates of AI's carbon and water footprint alongside familiar everyday activities.

Note · 2026-10-12

Revisit your AI disappointments.

Folks, a few days ago I wrote a post about how “pocket agents” change everything, illustrated with a photo of Kattis's watch, where Marvin popped up and pointed something out to her. Completely automagically, based on her real life, and in a genuinely smart and insightful way. Exactly what she needed, right then.

Project · Experimental

RISE & AI Sweden · Public MCP

An independent route for AI assistants to explore published Swedish AI research and knowledge.

Note · 2026-09-30

Seven little characters.

Seven little characters. Two can be in your pocket today. Three you’ll have to wait for (thanks, EU 🤬). One has passed away. And one won’t fit in there. Can you name them all?

Investment · Investor interest

Shiftic

A workspace for turning a change you want into behaviours people can practise, with plans, practical support and follow-up.

Idea · In practice

Six Value Vectors

Look for AI's value in decisions, energy, memory, risk, development and access, as well as time saved.

Note · 2026-08-24

Some things are small enough to fix.

Solar energy is fantastic. So please, Helsingborg Hospital, get your act together. Having this display sitting in the entrance, month after month, not working is embarrassing. Of course I know healthcare has bigger problems than this, but I also know that few of them are as easy to fix.

Note · 2026-06-30

Someone ought to build that. So I did.

In a comment, an #ensakidag follower wrote that there ought to be a site examining the party leaders’ speeches from Almedalen, and gave examples of questions they wanted answered. Perhaps such a site already exists, and SVT ought to have one, but I couldn’t find it. So to live up to my own advice today, I had to hack one together. About 10 minutes, because the subtitled broadcasts on SVT Play provided good source material, and because I’m not polishing details like design and am happy with basic functionality. Tell me what you think: https://lnkd.in/eWNJnaX3

Idea · In practice

Stacked Principles

Several commitments can be genuine. The decision is which one takes precedence here, and why.

Note · 2026-07-02

That’s not bad going.

Once upon a time, Lovable received a lot of justified criticism for generating redundant and poor-quality code. That still happens sometimes. But generally, I think we’re now at the point where it produces better frontend code than most developers and better-optimised sites than 99 per cent of all WordPress themes.

Note · 2026-06-29

The best red pen, or a blunter knife?

#ensakidag 498: AI as the best red pen of all time. (Or just an increasingly blunt knife?)

Note · 2026-08-13

The dreamers of Tjärö, sixteen years later.

Today marks 16 years since the SSWC book was released. I’ll come back to those 16 years, but above all I felt that, amid today’s hopelessness, there might be something valuable in being reminded of another time.

Note · 2026-08-22

The flow of agency.

My team and I have been philosophising again. Perhaps we’re pushing it a little. But surely it’s a hypothesis worth developing? (And someone will of course object that this is what leadership has always been about, but in practice “management” in organisations most certainly has NOT done this.)

Idea · In practice

The Four Jobs

Do the work. Improve the work. Grow yourself. Develop others.

Note · 2026-07-10

The human behind the robot’s hands.

#ensakidag 504: 1X’s new robot hands, and the human behind the curtain

Project · Live

The JJ AI Team

An open catalogue of the AI services and tools in my working ecosystem.

Note · 2026-06-27

The products that move our expectations.

Folks, I know it’s Saturday and I ought to be thinking about something other than work. But I’m still in a place where “work” is honestly among the most fun things I can think of.

Note · 2026-03-23

The Socratic Sous Vide finds a home.

Hörni, I built a prompt I call The Socratic Sous Vide.

Note · 2026-02-08

The work of improving the work.

Hörni. I've worked in digital transformation for +33 years (yes, I'm that old), and ”job 2” has never been more fun, more exciting, or more value-creating.

Note · 2026-04-15

Tilda becomes Shiftic.

Tilda is called Shiftic now. And it’s more than a new name.

Note · 2026-06-12

Tough love, at half past four.

Folks, this day got off to a good start. One of my AIs pushed back on the morning’s very first prompt. Exactly what I needed to hear at half past four 🫣

Note · 2026-02-18

Try underestimating AI.

If you think overestimating AI impact is expensive, try underestimating it

Project · Live

Vad sa de egentligen?

Explore the party leaders' Almedalen 2026 speeches through an AI-assisted comparison.

Project · Live

Valvakan 2026 · Partivakor

A public research collection about the parties' election-night gatherings in 2026.

Project · Experimental

Verifiable MCP

An experimental way for an AI client to check the origin and integrity of an MCP response.

Note · 2026-08-22

Verifiable MCP: an open invitation.

I'm looking for MCP- and/or rfc/standardization -geeks.

Note · 2026-06-30

Vibecoding moves into your pocket.

#ensakidag 499: Vibecoding moves into your pocket. (And now there are no excuses left.)

Note · 2026-04-22

What was actually said matters.

Folks. It’s 2026, and children’s most important conversations with social services are still being documented as a few bullet points in a notebook.

Note · 2026-10-11

What would good look like?

This week I put words around a way I often work: describe a worthwhile outcome early enough that the description can change what I choose to do.

Note · 2026-06-05

When transcription joins the rest of the work.

If you’ve had a meeting with me in the past three years, you know I’ve been accompanied by a small army of assistants taking notes for me.

Note · 2026-09-27

Where does human judgment belong?

This week I've been working on the four AI principles I use, which grew out of Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence.

Note · 2026-07-07

Which old map are you navigating by?

#ensakidag 503: China, fintech patents and the old maps we carry in our luggage

Note · 2026-09-02

Why not talk about it here?

I see lots of friends and colleagues sharing the choices they’ve made ahead of 13 September, but only in other channels? Why not here? Are people afraid of losing clients, does the algorithm punish them (and if that’s true, is that why I don’t see such posts here?), do they not have the energy for a possible argument, or is it simply considered bad manners and inappropriate in “LinkedIn culture”?

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Work with me

Strategy, learning journeys, workshops, keynotes, facilitation and building.

Note · 2026-07-30

You had one job.

When are we going to rebel against the lousy quality of services that “have one job”?