The first week: how new people learn a job, and where it breaks
What a new person's first week looks like, where the knowledge they need really sits, and why each new hire has to find it again.
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Future Talent Forum Malta 2026
Two days in Valletta with the OECD, Lightcast, Thomas International, CHROs and Malta's own ministries on skills, AI and what work looks like next. Every talk I recorded, summarized for founders.
- What I took home from Malta
- Mark Patterson: The word isn't excitement or fear, it's sovereignty
- El Iza Mohamedou: Skill systems that catch up, not predict
- Beyond units of productivity
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BNI Afterwork presentation
BNI Internationals hosted an afterwork in Stockholm and I had seven minutes in front of the room. Here is what I showed them: the tools we actually run, why a new hire only ever gets crumbs of what the founder knows, and two companies who solved it from opposite starting points.
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AI-onboarding: two things that are actually one
AI-onboarding means two things. Onboarding a human with AI, and onboarding an AI agent into the company. Both need exactly the same thing.
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The best AI onboarding tools in 2026
The tools split into three categories, and all three assume the same thing: that the content already exists in writing. It usually doesn't.
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Do you qualify for Sweden's digitalisation grant?
Who can apply, what the money actually covers, and what happens when you guess wrong. With a real worked example from Stockholm and Jönköping.
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How to digitalise your onboarding process, step by step
The complete method, six steps, from mapping to a source that actually stays current. Nothing held back.
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How to get the most out of Sweden's digitalisation grant
You know you qualify and you know what the money can pay for. What separates a strong application from a weak one is timing, category, and paperwork, not the project itself.
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Measurement: how you know the source is actually working
Most people measure whether the source exists, not whether it works. Four real tests, and what to stop measuring.
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New-hire introduction plan: a template to start from
A real template, five phases from before day one to month three, that you can copy and fill in right now. Plus what a template can never do on its own.
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Onboarding without the binder
The binder, the PDF, the wiki, they all fail the same way. Written once, read once. Reality changes long before anyone rewrites them.
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What can you actually use Sweden's digitalisation grant for?
The same project can get approved or rejected depending on how it's described. A walk through the project types that actually get through, with real examples.
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What context does AI actually need to be good?
You've already tried ChatGPT or Claude on your business. The answers were fine, and generic. Here's why, and the four kinds of knowledge that are actually missing.
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What disappears when someone quits?
You can't always stop someone from leaving. You can stop the knowledge from leaving with them. That's an information problem, not an engagement problem.
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Which knowledge should you capture first?
Most people start with the most common questions. Wrong starting point. The right question is what's most expensive to lose, not what gets asked most often.
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Writing for both humans and machines
It isn't a tradeoff. The same discipline that makes a passage clear to an AI agent makes it clearer to a person too, because ambiguity is always a problem, just invisible when a colleague can answer the follow-up question.
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Future Talent Summit 2026
Talks from the Future Talent Summit on AI, work, and what stays human when machines have the answers. Summarized in plain English, with the parts founders should remember pulled out.
- Vivienne Ming: Build better people
- Building cultures that lead through change
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SaaSiest 2026
Two days, every European SaaS founder worth knowing, and a bunch of operator talks that don't normally leave the room. Notes from the talks I caught at SaaSiest 2026 in Malmö.
- Nathan Latka at SaaSiest 2026: 9 case studies, 3 patterns
- Varun Atrey at SaaSiest 2026: The more AI in your product, the more human your GTM
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Scaling Sales with AI: the workshop digest
The shift in sales isn't that AI made it easier. It made the system cheaper to build. Notes from the Opmore × Sakura workshop in Stockholm.
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AWS x AI Labs: World Models and Demo Night
Live demos, a keynote on world models, and the first time we demoed Opmore in front of a room. What we took away from the AWS x AI Labs demo night hosted by Worker.ai.
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The Valuation Tax on Founder-Led Sales
Buyers don't pay full price for a business that runs on the founder. They cut the multiple by 30 to 50%, slow the close, and structure earn-outs that make you re-earn your own exit. The data, the diligence, and how to fix it before you go to market.
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Why Process-Driven Companies Sell for Twice as Much
Average businesses sell for 3.5x pre-tax profit. Process-driven ones sell for 7.1x. The premium is paid for systems, not for charisma. The math, the geography, and how a €200K hire creates €2.6M in equity value.
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YC Stockholm 2026
1,300 founders. Two hours on stage. Gustaf Alströmer, Max Junestrand and Paul Graham on AI, founder dependency, Stockholm's open job, and what's actually scarce now.
- YC came to Stockholm. Here's what Gustaf Alströmer said to 1,300 founders.
- Max Junestrand on building Legora to €100M ARR (in conversation with Gustaf)
- Paul Graham at YC Stockholm on Silicon Valley, serendipity, and Sweden's open job
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