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  • How my desire for big arms changed my life

    Today I participated in my first powerlifting meet. It wasn’t an “official” competition (as in the Swedish championship), but it was a competition nonetheless. The atmosphere was amazing and I am really impressed by the number of people that participated, both as competitors and support. I finished 3rd, which felt great. My training career is…

  • Congratulations to Every Man on the Planet

    I have been following an Instagram account called @assholesonline for quite some time. The owner of the account Linnea Claesson, a Swedish handball player, frequently uploads screenshots of the various online harassments she has had to endure from men since the age of ten. She also includes her own responses to the harassers – most…

  • Studentafton with Anders Kompass

    Signing up for studentafton I didn’t really know what to expect – I had never been before and didn’t know much about the speaker of the night – Anders Kompass. But I was not disappointed. Before choosing to attend Studentafton all I really knew about it was that Fredrik Reinfeldt was hosted as a guest…

  • The “Goodest” Country in the World

    There is an index called the ”Good Country Index”. The idea behind the index is quoted as follows: “The Good Country Index is simple: to measure what each country on earth contributes to the common good of humanity, and what it takes away, all relative to its size.” As of today Sweden and Denmark are…

  • United We Stand, Divided We Fall

    In 2005 I was supposed to go on vacation with my family to Italy. However, nothing went the way it was supposed to. Two weeks that were meant to be lled with joy and laughter together with people that I love turned into two weeks of confusion, powerlessness and grief. It was the end of…

  • The Magical World of Compounding Interest

    I’m sure I’m not the only one that have enjoyed the thought of having an obscene amount of money. Not for the purpose of endless consuming however, but for the purpose of freedom (but if you love money because you love consuming that is perfectly fine – I do too – to a certain degree). For…