Episodes
Everything from both series in one place – conversations, explainers, short primers and books. Filter by format or topic, or search.
What do the numbers in a barcode mean? A walk through the GS1 standards – how a GTIN is built up, how the check digit is calculated, what the prefix actually says about country of origin, the keys beyond GTIN, and the move to 2D codes towards 2027.
With Odin Jean Aadland · Logistics
Odin went to Turkey and came home with 4,300 new hair follicles. He describes the whole trip – how little he researched beforehand, how the procedure actually went, what it cost, what hurt, and why he thinks it was worth it. An honest conversation about something many men think about and few discuss.
With Sturla Fagerli Larsen · Artist and songwriter
Sturla has been on X Factor, Idol, The Voice and Melodi Grand Prix, and had a record deal with Sony. A conversation about life as an artist and the business behind it – from television competitions to royalties and booking your own concerts.
How do you build habits that last? A walk through James Clear's Atomic Habits – the four laws, the 1 % rule, habit stacking, the two-minute rule and why you should never miss twice.
With Håvard Hasund · Paramedic
Håvard Hasund paddled 1,500 kilometres through northern Canada in 47 days. A conversation about the planning, the safety, the bear encounters and what actually happened out there.
How do you sleep better? A walk through what Matthew Walker, Andrew Huberman and Bryan Johnson agree on - the circadian rhythm, sleep pressure, light, caffeine and the evening routine.
Career · Paramedic
With Håvard Hasund
Håvard Hasund has worked as a paramedic both in Oslo and in rural Sunnmøre. A conversation about the training, the placements, the year on dispatch and the large differences between city and countryside.
How do some people memorise a whole deck of cards? A practical walk through memory technique: the memory palace, encoding things as images, and the systems that make it possible – and how to use them yourself.
Career · Doctor
With John Erik
What is it like to be a doctor? John Erik talks about studying medicine in Poland, everyday life as a GP, meeting patients, responsibility, and advice for future doctors.
School teaches you to work right to left, because that is how you write. In your head it is the other way round. A walk-through of the techniques for addition and subtraction – round and correct, fill up to the ten, shift between the numbers, and why you never need to borrow.
What does it take to succeed enormously? Not what you think, argues Malcolm Gladwell. A walk through the ideas in Outliers – 10,000 hours, birth months, opportunity and cultural legacy – and why the book's most famous rule is misread.
The best-selling personal finance book of all time, and one of the most disputed. A walk through the ideas in Rich Dad Poor Dad – assets versus liabilities, cash flow, the rat race – and an honest look at what the criticism is about.
What cabotage is, and which rules apply to foreign lorries in Norway: three operations in seven days, the four-day cooling-off period, the documentation requirement, the rules for buses – and why the arrangement exists.
The customs tariff explained: what a commodity code is, why the first six digits are the same worldwide, what the two Norwegian digits do, why classification is hard – and what the code actually decides.
An annual stock count that takes two to three months with two full-time equivalents. Can RFID cut it? This is my bachelor thesis from 2020 – the warehouse in numbers, what the pilot test actually showed, why tags on metal stopped answering, and what we could not answer.
Division feels harder than the other operations, but it is the method that is the problem – not the sum. A walk-through of factorising, splitting, short division, the divisibility rules for 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 11, and what to do when it does not come out even.
How the tachograph and the driver card work, and what the driving and rest time rules actually say: nine hours of driving, the break after four and a half hours, daily rest, weekly rest – and what the Mobility Package changed.
How much should you order at once? The EOQ formula explained with a worked example, the elegant property at the optimum, why the cost curve is so flat that precision barely matters – and what lean does to the whole calculation.
Why has concentrating become so hard? A walk through two books about attention – Stolen Focus by Johann Hari and Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey – and what they say separately and together.
How Formula 1 moves from track to track: what goes by air and what goes by sea, why teams keep several identical sets of equipment, how the cars are packed, and why the calendar is a logistics problem.
Investor Naval Ravikant's thinking on wealth, leverage and happiness, compiled by Eric Jorgenson. A walk through the ideas – specific knowledge, accountability, the four kinds of leverage – and what is problematic about reading success backwards.
The best-selling book about people ever written, from 1936. A walk through the ideas in Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People – why criticism does not work, what genuine interest does, and where the line to manipulation runs.
What do FOB, CIF, DAP and DDP actually mean – and where does the risk really pass? A walk through all eleven Incoterms 2020 rules, the split between risk and cost, what changed from 2010, and the most common mistakes in practice.
What is lean, really? A walk through the system Toyota built – value and waste, the seven wastes, the five principles, kanban and just-in-time, kaizen and PDCA – and through the criticism about redundancies, fragile supply chains and work pressure.
MRP explained from the ground up: why component requirements should be calculated rather than guessed, what a bill of materials is, and a full worked calculation from order to order date – gross, net and lead time offsetting.
A former FBI hostage negotiator on why you should never meet in the middle. A walk through the ideas in Chris Voss's Never Split the Difference – tactical empathy, mirroring, calibrated questions – and what holds outside a hostage situation.
The founder of the world's largest hedge fund on how he makes up his mind. A walk through the ideas in Ray Dalio's Principles – written rules, radical transparency, believability weighting – and how well they survive being taken out of Bridgewater.
Hundred-year-old advice on saving, debt and putting money to work, told as parables from Babylon. A walk through the seven cures in The Richest Man in Babylon – and which of them still hold.
Percentages are the arithmetic people use most and get wrong most. A walk-through of the techniques – ten per cent as the starting point, the trick of turning the sum around, VAT in both directions, per cent against percentage points, and why up and down by the same amount does not return you to the start.
How can a chip with no battery be read several metres away? A walk through RFID – the three parts, the frequency bands, passive and active tags, how it differs from a barcode, why metal and liquid ruin things, and why the technology did not take over everything after all.
Why do bad arguments sound so convincing? A walk through the most common fallacies – straw man, ad hominem, false dilemma, slippery slope and the rest – with everyday examples, and with the cases where they are not fallacies at all.
Suez, Panama and the Arctic routes explained: why a few narrow places decide world trade, what Panamax and Neopanamax mean, why drought stops ships in Panama, and what the detour around Africa actually costs.
Scientific management and the Toyota Production System side by side: Taylor's stopwatch, the fabricated story of Schmidt, Toyota's andon cord, how extreme both systems really are – and what separates them.
The EU transport network explained: what TEN-T actually covers, the three layers and the 2030, 2040 and 2050 deadlines, the nine corridors, the requirements on speed, signalling and train length – and how Norway connects.
TEU, FEU and the container standards explained: what the unit actually counts, why the 40-footer dominates, what the number on the side means, and why the standardisation mattered more than the box itself.
The assembly line was not invented in the car industry. It came from the Chicago slaughterhouses, where animals were taken apart on rails. Here is how the idea was reversed, what happened to the price – and what it cost the people standing at the line.
Why a small change on a shop shelf becomes a large swing in the factory: the bullwhip effect explained, with the nappies that exposed it, the four causes, the toilet paper of 2020 – and what actually dampens it.
The book Warren Buffett calls the best on investing, from 1949. A walk through the ideas in The Intelligent Investor – Mr. Market, the margin of safety, the difference between price and value – and what is worth carrying forward today.
How do you learn the times tables without memorising a hundred facts? A walk through a technique for every table from 1 to 10 – doubling, the five rule, the digit rule for nines and the square numbers – and the few facts that genuinely have to be practised.
A method for mental arithmetic in which the times tables are replaced by one short rule per digit. The whole Trachtenberg system walked through, with the rule and an example for every digit from 2 to 12 – and how to check the answer.
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman on the two ways the brain makes decisions, and the systematic errors that follow. A walk through the ideas in Thinking, Fast and Slow – and through which parts of the book have not held up.
Two words that became a bestseller. A walk through the ideas in Mel Robbins's The Let Them Theory – what “let them” and “let me” actually mean, where they come from, and where the limit lies for what you can release.
Two systems that have to talk to each other, and a project that often does not go to plan. This is my master's thesis from 2025 – what 22 practitioners and four consultants report as the causes of ERP–WMS integration failure, which measures they think work, and why the biggest number is not a technical one.
Money is not a sum – it is behaviour. A walk through the ideas in Morgan Housel's The Psychology of Money: luck and risk, compounding, why keeping money is harder than making it, and why freedom is the real return.
Why do some people and companies manage to inspire, while others merely inform? A walk through the ideas in Simon Sinek's Start With Why – the golden circle, manipulation versus inspiration – and an honest look at the reasoning behind it.
Why has it become so hard to concentrate on one thing – and why does it pay so well for those who manage it? A walk through the ideas in Cal Newport's Deep Work: deep versus shallow, the four rhythms, and what is disputed.
Why is it always the thing nobody saw coming that changes everything? A walk through the ideas in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan – Mediocristan and Extremistan, the turkey problem, the narrative fallacy – and what to actually do about it.
A book that sells on its title and is really about values. A walk through the ideas in Mark Manson's The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – choosing what to care about, responsibility versus fault, and how much of this is stoicism in new language.
Social psychologist Robert Cialdini on the few mechanisms that make people say yes. A walk through the ideas in Influence – reciprocity, commitment, social proof, liking, authority and scarcity – and how to notice when they are being used on you.
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