A running notebook of short reflections, links, and longer essays about engineering leadership, product, and work culture. Some posts are imported from LinkedIn, and kept here as a personal archive.
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One reflection to start the year: instead of setting big goals and objectives, focus on something that you can control, and the change you will commit to. That habit will lead you (or not) to the …
Interesting to see how a piece of software engineering jargon like “technical debt” makes it to the mainstream media - and quite a cautionary tale in favour of taking good care of …
With Copenhagen fully covered in snow and ice like a Christmas Wonderland - it made me reflect on how lucky we are to be able to see the whole 4 seasons changing from the office at SumUp in Copenhagen …
One of the best things to work at SumUp is to see how our work directly helps small merchants run their businesses. It is great to be in contact with our merchants, understanding them and learning …
This weekend I’ve got to play with Midjourney’s last version, v4. The improvements are amazing 🤯, generating images on the text inputs (or “prompts”) provided to the …
Being able to define something makes conversations way more engaging and deep than when you’re trying to figure out how to call things… 🙊 Let me elaborate on the idea💡 and bring a …
You will start seeing these beauties soon at the desk our your favourite local merchants 🤩A beautiful piece of hardware with no strings attached (aka no monthly fees), competitive payment fees, and …
I love working in multi cultural environments, across countries, and doing business with all kind of nationalities and backgrounds. I really appreciate the different ways of approaching a situation, …
A very interesting and unique position, with almost instant positive impact in the large scale operations of the software/hardware product. Lots of collaboration, and working in complex and …
This was quite a blast. Getting so many colleagues from all SumUp for a week, from every discipline of Engineering, Product & Design, together in the same location - and having full freedom to …