Notes / September 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. 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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? [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/seven-little-characters)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/seven-little-characters/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7511135329358254081/) [![A collage of AI companions and devices, used as a guessing game in the original post.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7511135329358254081-1.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7511135329358254081-1.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/) 16 September 2026Building & openness ## [Proud of the people building Klang.](https://jardenberg.com/notes/proud-of-the-people-building-klang) AI translation · Swedish → English 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. [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/proud-of-the-people-building-klang)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/proud-of-the-people-building-klang/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7505927443229249536/) [![Klang research charts: a map of Swedish dialect samples and a curve showing recognition variation across latitude.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7505927443229249536-1.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7505927443229249536-1.jpg) 2 September 2026Society & public life ## [Why not talk about it here?](https://jardenberg.com/notes/why-not-talk-about-it-here) AI translation · Swedish → English 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… [Read note](https://jardenberg.com/notes/why-not-talk-about-it-here)[Läs originalet](https://jardenberg.com/notes/why-not-talk-about-it-here/sv)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7500970537406332928/) [![Centre Party ballot papers on a table beside a black marker.](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7500970537406332928-1.jpg)](https://jardenberg.com/images/notes/backfill/7500970537406332928-1.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/month/2026-09 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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