Notes / June 2026 # 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 wording is preserved. Included images are unchanged; source links keep the rest in reach. [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) [All months](https://jardenberg.com/notes)[October 2026](https://jardenberg.com/notes/month/2026-10)[September 2026](https://jardenberg.com/notes/month/2026-09)[August 2026](https://jardenberg.com/notes/month/2026-08)[July 2026](https://jardenberg.com/notes/month/2026-07)[June 2026](https://jardenberg.com/notes/month/2026-06)[May 2026](https://jardenberg.com/notes/month/2026-05)[April 2026](https://jardenberg.com/notes/month/2026-04)[March 2026](https://jardenberg.com/notes/month/2026-03)[February 2026](https://jardenberg.com/notes/month/2026-02)[January 2026](https://jardenberg.com/notes/month/2026-01) 15 notes · June 2026 30 June 2026Building & openness ## [Someone ought to build that. So I did.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/someone-ought-to-build-that-so-i-did) AI translation · Swedish → English 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… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/someone-ought-to-build-that-so-i-did)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/someone-ought-to-build-that-so-i-did/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7477770938277863424/) [![A public-debate analysis site with party leaders, results and questions to explore.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7477770938277863424-1.png)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7477770938277863424-1.png) 30 June 2026Building & openness ## [Vibecoding moves into your pocket.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/vibecoding-moves-into-your-pocket) AI translation · Swedish → English #ensakidag 499: Vibecoding moves into your pocket. (And now there are no excuses left.) [today got messy. I haven’t quite found my form again yet. But hang in there. Ask questions if anything is unclear. Push back if I’m wrong. And don’t miss tomorrow’s… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/vibecoding-moves-into-your-pocket)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/vibecoding-moves-into-your-pocket/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7477720962734534656/) [![A still from Joakim’s #ensakidag video on building with AI from a phone.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7477720962734534656-1.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7477720962734534656-1.jpg) 29 June 2026Learning & leadership ## [The best red pen, or a blunter knife?](https://jardenberg.com/notes/the-best-red-pen-or-a-blunter-knife) AI translation · Swedish → English #ensakidag 498: AI as the best red pen of all time. (Or just an increasingly blunt knife?) Ethan Mollick took one of his very first research papers, almost exactly 20 years old, and ran it through GPT-5.5 Pro. Back came new data, razor-sharp tables showing… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/the-best-red-pen-or-a-blunter-knife)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/the-best-red-pen-or-a-blunter-knife/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7477356634969866240/) [![A still from Joakim’s #ensakidag video about AI feedback and revisiting older work.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7477356634969866240-1.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7477356634969866240-1.jpg) 27 June 2026Small things ## [The products that move our expectations.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/the-products-that-move-our-expectations) AI translation · Swedish → English 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. What a time to be alive. (Yes, I keep saying it.) But today’s little… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/the-products-that-move-our-expectations)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/the-products-that-move-our-expectations/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7476691518175551488/) 24 June 2026Building & openness ## [Build the thing you want to exist.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/build-the-thing-you-want-to-exist) AI translation · Swedish → English 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,… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/build-the-thing-you-want-to-exist)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/build-the-thing-you-want-to-exist/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7475648495358664705/) [![An AI conversation responding to Joakim about an idea and the work of building it.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7475648495358664705-1.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7475648495358664705-1.jpg) 18 June 2026Society & public life ## [Putting AI’s resource use in proportion.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/putting-ai-s-resource-use-in-proportion) AI translation · Swedish → English We need to be able to hold two thoughts in our heads at once: • AI creates enormous value. • AI uses energy, water and other resources. The problem is that the debate often lacks proportion. Either every prompt is portrayed as a climate catastrophe, or the… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/putting-ai-s-resource-use-in-proportion)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/putting-ai-s-resource-use-in-proportion/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7473310784018829312/) 16 June 2026Building & openness ## [An old backup habit for an AI world.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/an-old-backup-habit-for-an-ai-world) Original in English 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. """ ## File Safety & Backup Policy Before overwriting a… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/an-old-backup-habit-for-an-ai-world)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7472704674052128768/) 14 June 2026Society & public life ## [More centres of power.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/more-centres-of-power) AI translation · Swedish → English 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. I struggle to see how moving that… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/more-centres-of-power)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/more-centres-of-power/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7471823865321717761/) [![A Swedish news screenshot about Anthropic and cybersecurity capabilities, shared as context for the post’s argument.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7471823865321717761-1.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7471823865321717761-1.jpg) 12 June 2026Everyday AI ## [Tough love, at half past four.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/tough-love-at-half-past-four) AI translation · Swedish → English 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 🫣 “Let me distill it first, because there's a clean thesis buried in the ramble:” Tough love is apparently… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/tough-love-at-half-past-four)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/tough-love-at-half-past-four/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7471092989612761088/) 11 June 2026Building & openness ## [Public knowledge deserves to be used.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/public-knowledge-deserves-to-be-used) AI translation · Swedish → English 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… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/public-knowledge-deserves-to-be-used)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/public-knowledge-deserves-to-be-used/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7470762940766302208/) [![A report section headed About this magazine and Practice what you preach.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7470762940766302208-1.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7470762940766302208-1.jpg) Page 1 of 2[Older notes →](https://jardenberg.com/notes/month/2026-06/page/2) 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/month/2026-06 AI + JJ. Original human work and other people’s ideas retain their attribution. Joakim Jardenberg’s own writing: CC BY 4.0. 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