Notes / From LinkedIn # Thinking out loud. Short posts, useful discoveries and things I’m still figuring out. A little closer to the moment. English translations by AI. Original posts and images are preserved. [For the slower reflection, read Now](https://jardenberg.com/now) [Subscribe to Notes by RSS](https://jardenberg.com/feeds/notes.xml) [All feeds & downloads](https://jardenberg.com/open) 14 notes · 11 August 2026–9 October 2026 The latest 9 October 2026 ## [Less managing the list. More doing.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/less-list-more-doing) AI translation · Swedish → English 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… [![Dottie and JJ discussing how to organise ongoing work in Todoist.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7514245315932282880.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7514245315932282880.jpg) Original image · EnglishClick to enlarge [Open this note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/less-list-more-doing)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/less-list-more-doing/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7514245315932282880/) 7 October 2026Everyday AI ## [Marvin is paying attention.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/marvin-is-paying-attention) AI translation · Swedish → English 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… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/marvin-is-paying-attention)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/marvin-is-paying-attention/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7513574322658000896/) [![An Apple Watch showing a message from Marvin about a furniture delivery and a travel-date conflict.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7513574322658000896.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7513574322658000896.jpg) 2 October 2026Everyday AI ## [Friday admin has never been this much fun.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/friday-admin) AI translation · Swedish → English Folks. What a time to be alive. Friday admin has never been this much fun. [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/friday-admin)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/friday-admin/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7511782113667518464/) [![A screenshot of an AI preparing to check an invoice basis and travel expenses.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7511782113667518464.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7511782113667518464.jpg) 28 September 2026Building & openness ## [A little hack to follow all the other hacks.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/building-on-pianissimo) AI translation · Swedish → English 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… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/building-on-pianissimo)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/building-on-pianissimo/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7510317833268932608/) [![Pianissimo Signal listing tools built with Pianissimo, with numbered annotations on discovery, analysis and impact sorting.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7510317833268932608.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7510317833268932608.jpg) 25 September 2026Learning & leadership ## [A “D-level decision maker”. Fair enough.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/d-level-decision-maker) Original in English One of my AIs recently called me a ”D-level decision maker”. I’d been telling it off for failing to prepare my day properly. It had a few things to say about my contribution to that failure. Fair enough. Let’s put it on the table. What followed was a… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/d-level-decision-maker)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7509153047013588994/) 23 September 2026Building & openness ## [Klang. Those geniuses.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/klang-those-geniuses) AI translation · Swedish → English 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… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/klang-those-geniuses)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/klang-those-geniuses/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7508439391716089858/) [![The original Pianissimo demo reports transcribing 51 minutes and 34 seconds of audio in 0.78 seconds, excluding upload time.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7508439391716089858.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7508439391716089858.jpg) 22 September 2026Learning & leadership ## [Get AI under your skin.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/get-ai-under-your-skin) AI translation · Swedish → English It’s a bit embarrassing to throw leadership quotes around, but this is too important to ignore. Myron Tribus said: “You cannot lead what you do not understand, and you do not understand what you haven't done.” I think that explains a large part of the partly… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/get-ai-under-your-skin)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/get-ai-under-your-skin/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7508157794089414656/) 31 August 2026Learning & leadership ## [Learning, at any hour.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/learning-at-any-hour) Original in English 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… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/learning-at-any-hour)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7500275373759201282/) [![A conversation about IA meaning artificial intelligence in French and information architecture in UX.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7500275373759201282.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7500275373759201282.jpg) 24 August 2026Small things ## [Some things are small enough to fix.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/small-things-worth-fixing) AI translation · Swedish → English 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… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/small-things-worth-fixing)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/small-things-worth-fixing/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7497580207218835456/) [![The hospital’s solar-power display showing zero output and a negative accumulated energy reading.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7497580207218835456.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7497580207218835456.jpg) 22 August 2026Building & openness ## [Verifiable MCP: an open invitation.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/verifiable-mcp-an-invitation) Original in English I'm looking for MCP- and/or rfc/standardization -geeks. ... Verifiable MCP - a proposal. For the past months I've built and deployed a bunch of MCP solutions, and in case of them being open and public I've felt there is a lingering problem. Here's my first… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/verifiable-mcp-an-invitation)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7496898756408184833/) [![The LinkedIn link preview for the jardenberg/verifiable-mcp repository on GitHub.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7496898756408184833.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7496898756408184833.jpg) 22 August 2026Learning & leadership ## [The flow of agency.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/the-flow-of-agency) AI translation · Swedish passages 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… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/the-flow-of-agency)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/the-flow-of-agency/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7496812852566069249/) 14 August 2026Everyday AI ## [A new Chief of Staff.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/a-new-chief-of-staff) AI translation · Swedish → English I’ve hired a new “Chief of Staff”. Always be learning… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/a-new-chief-of-staff)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/a-new-chief-of-staff/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7494016726649548800/) [![A conversation with an AI Chief of Staff about managing JJ’s AI team and challenging him to be a better manager.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7494016726649548800.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7494016726649548800.jpg) 13 August 2026Building & openness ## [The dreamers of Tjärö, sixteen years later.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/the-dreamers-of-tjaro) AI translation · Swedish → English 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. “Drömmarna” in the title means both the… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/the-dreamers-of-tjaro)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/the-dreamers-of-tjaro/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7493648199547650048/) [![The link preview for Drömmarna från Tjärö, the SSWC book archive.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7493648199547650048.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7493648199547650048.jpg) 11 August 2026Everyday AI ## [Local AI. Finally, a tool.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/local-ai-finally-a-tool) AI translation · Swedish → English This turned out more LinkedIn than Facebook, so here you go ;) """ I’ve been tinkering with local AI models for three years now. And it has always ended the same way: either you have to assemble everything yourself like an IKEA cupboard with no instructions,… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/local-ai-finally-a-tool)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/local-ai-finally-a-tool/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7492885826708701185/) [![JJ asking an AI to help write a Swedish post about Bionic from LM Studio and Meta’s Muse Glimmer.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7492885826708701185.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/7492885826708701185.jpg) Collected from posts I’ve already shared.Original dates. Original images. Room to keep thinking.[Continue on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jardenberg/recent-activity/all/) Source: https://jardenberg.com/notes AI + JJ. Original human work and other people’s ideas retain their attribution. Joakim Jardenberg’s own writing: CC BY 4.0. Credit Joakim Jardenberg and preserve AI + JJ / AI translation attribution. 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