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It asks: What if framing isn’t just the first step of building, but a kind of building in itself? What if ideas — when clarified — are a form of infrastructure?

I’ve spent years working at the intersection of engineering, strategy, and design. I’m now formalizing that practice under a new project called The Philosopher-Maker, where I write and consult around the idea that strategic clarity is a creative act, not just a prelude to one.

This first essay is an attempt to articulate that position — especially in a time when AI is reshaping what it means to execute, and when thinking well is arguably becoming the last real moat.

It’s not a manifesto. It’s a serious, long-form essay for people who care about the structure of ideas, not just the speed of shipping. If that sounds like you, I’d love your thoughts.

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I’m looking for freelance work doing functional programming. I have long and deep experience with Elm, Erlang and Swift. Can also do C, Ruby and Haskell.

I’m located in Stockholm, Sweden and have worked in many different industries ranging from music, fintech, healthtech, logistics, edtech, etc. Prefer remote work. Very flexible with types and size of projects, as well as pricing.

niklas@niklasholmgren.com

“Hey Siri! Put that statement in an if-clause. …no, not that one. The other one. Argh!!!”

throws the $3499 vision across the room

The keyboard was famously considered a make it or break it feature internally at Apple when developing the original iPhone. It is very telling that they haven’t managed to solve this basic HCI problem for the Vision. Steve Jobs would never have released this. I’m sad to say it, but this is not a “Pro” device. It’s a Prototype device.

Apple Vision Prototype

(And I’m sorry, but the eyes are creepy —- uncanny valley)

A very important aspect of GDPR is a consideration for the purpose of the processing of data. If your company is providing an international messaging service in order to harvest sensitive personal data from private messages, then yes that is very much illegal. But if the purpose is simply to provide a messaging service and you are taking the appropriate steps to secure the data of your users, then it is not illegal.

It’s not about protecting all data. It’s about protecting personal data.

https://gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/

A friend of mine came to me with a business idea and wanted me to join him as a technical co-founder. I wasn’t sure I wanted to commit to that but offered to help him build a prototype so he could raise some money and start a company. I told him I might potentially consider joining the company later, but gave no binding promise.

He didn’t have any money at the time to pay me for working on the prototype so we came up with a deal where I would charge my normal hourly consulting rate, but if he hadn’t managed to incorporate and raise money after 3 months, then he wouldn’t have to pay me anything. But all the IP would revert to me and I would essentially own everything.

At the time I considered the deal to be fair and pretty low risk for both of us. He claimed to already have investors interested in his idea and I didn’t have any other consulting gig at the moment anyway. I also wanted to help him out starting his company. If he managed to raise some money, which seemed likely, it would be a fairly good payout for me at the end of the 3 months.

I worked hard and built the prototype for him. I probably worked harder than needed, but I wanted him to succeed. At the end of the 3 months he claimed that he was on the verge of signing an investment with several angels. But he needed me as a co-founder to close the deal. I told him I would consider it if we split ownership 50/50. Seemed fair, since I basically had built the product all on my own and he had contributed almost nothing, beside the original idea. But he refused to give me anything above 20%, which was a big red flag for me. So the deal with the investor never happened and ownership of all the IP defaulted to me… or so I thought.

I obviously dropped the project and went on working on other things. But the other day I read a news article about how my “friend” had just raised a large sum of money from several prominent investors and had been running his company for more than a year with IP that I was the legal owner of. I was shocked by the audacity and emailed the guy telling him that he could please pay me what he owed me, and I would not pursue any legal action. But haven’t gotten any response. crickets

So what should I do? The amount he owes me is quite a considerable sum for me, but not unreasonable. I have a contract that we both signed listing everything in detail. So shouldn’t be any problem to prove. I never gave him the code I wrote for the product, but a lot of the work was on architecture and product design that I did share with him, so I don’t think it should matter. He is still using my IP.

Contacting a lawyer seems like an obvious next step. But that costs a lot of money. I am considering emailing his investors as a next step. But don’t want to screw things up for him. Just want to get payed. He will need to raise a seed round at some point, which would be impossible unless he lies to his investors.

Any suggestions on what I should do?

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I'm also an obsessive runner, so I figured a good first project to build would be an AI coach for runners. What started out small... quickly turned into something big.

I've been using it myself for a couple of months and been tweaking it continuously. Feeding it new and improved data sets. I think for most normal runners (beginner -> immediate -> advanced) it works pretty well. It might be completely off if you're an elite runner. But I decided it's good enough to release to the world. So I'm launching it as an app for iPhone and Apple Watch (free for now). Would love to get some feedback from other runners.

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Musk is such a looser.

Location: Sweden

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Mobile and app development (Swift, ObjC, C/C++, iOS, watchOS, macOS, etc)

Design work. Typography. Interface design. Information architecture. Product design.

Web (html/css/js/node/rails/elm).

Backend. Erlang. Haskell. Kotlin. Java. Ruby. C. Typescript.

Have built almost everything over the years. From low level, high performance, scalable stuff, to user friendly and highly successful mobile apps and web apps. Part of founding team of a number of successful startups.

EXPERTISE Sportstech Fintech Insuretech Medtech Media/streaming Compilers Distributed systems

20+ years of experience. Fairly low rates for what you get (negotiable). Mostly looking for part time remote work.

https://github.com/niho https://niklasholmgren.com/

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