Björn Jeffery

The underlying cause of this debt glut is the $12tn of free or cheap money created by central banks since 2009, combined with near-zero interest rates. When the real price of money is close to zero, people borrow and worry about the consequences later. It’s different this time, right? Apocalypse now: has the next giant financial crash already begun? | Comment is free | The Guardian

The slide that most app developers seem not to have understood. (via Activate Tech and Media Outlook 2016)

Trust takes a long time to create, but merely seconds to lose. This is true both as a company and as an employee. I was thinking about a post I wrote about a year ago on my management style and how sometimes I am mistakingly thought to not notice things since I’m not in too many details. I do notice, but I try not to lead companies or people on that level. This way of working, […]

Regardless, here’s my advice to all the Biffs, Sebastians, Brooks, and Tiffanys who want to be kingmakers: Venture capital is something to do at the end of your career, not the beginning. It should be your last job, not your first. My theory is that when you’re young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world. You should not sit in board meetings listening to an […]

The illusion of creative control is maintained by the fig leaf of a songwriting credit. The performer’s name will often appear in the list of songwriters, even if his or her contribution is negligible. (There’s a saying for this in the music industry: “Change a word, get a third.”) Karl Martin Sandberg, Mikkel Eriksen, Tor Hermansen and Other Songwriters Behind the Hits of Katy Perry and Taylor Swift – The Atlantic

One thing Jeff Bezos has said that resonated with our experience is that if you want to innovate you have to be willing to be misunderstood for a long time. Henry Blodget talks about why he sold Business Insider – Fortune

“If you keep yourself topped off with ideas all the time, you never become open enough to get the sustenance you require in order to move on. You end up just recycling what is already in the zeitgeist.” (via Robert Rowland Smith on Ideas – RSA) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

A long Swedish interview with me, mainly about Toca Boca. In the newspaper where I got my first job, almost 20 years ago now. (via Han skapar lek-appar för miljoner – Ekonomi – Göteborgs-Posten)

In fact, it’s almost anti-discussed due to the obsession in media and political circles with the alleged rise of the robots. We’re so busy worrying about how to counteract an imaginary, robot-driven productivity surge that we’re barely paying attention to the real story of the productivity slowdown. The automation myth: Robots aren’t taking your jobs— and that’s the problem – Vox