My name is Chris and I live in Sweden. I have a beautiful, supportive wife whose love I will never be able to requite, neither in degree nor kind. Our two wonderful offspring have already taught me so much about humans and life.

I approach things as a quant, systems thinker, and anarchist1¹ Since this word is likely to trigger misunderstandings: I mean that I’m strongly in favour of direct democracy, liberty, non-violence, and solidarity..

My interests span widely, and are generally at least tangentially useful for software product development and delivery. What I do for a living varies over time, and in recent history it’s been in the general area of software engineering, site reliability engineering, management, and undercover statistics.

I am writing for this site in my spare time, which is scarce, with the family and full-time job and all. The list of unwritten and early-draft articles is very long – at the moment it stands at over 200 entries. If you like my writing and want to encourge me to spend more time doing it, you should subscribe to the premium email newsletter. If you would rather make a one-time donation, you can buy me a coffee.

I feel alive when I teach. My most eager and voracious student is myself, a few months or years older. Most articles on this site start when I find myself thinking,

This was interesting. I’m sure it could be useful some day, if only I had access to a good summary and explanation then.

Thus, most articles I write to teach myself something. Some articles are written to teach other people – often after having repeated the same thing a few times and figuring more people might benefit from a more polished explanation.

Another big reason I publish my ideas is so that other people can poke holes in them. I have never learned as much as when I’ve confidently believed something wrong in conversation with someone who knows better.

I have a PGP public key. The key is maintained, but that file is not actively updated. If you need a new version you can ask me to. The key fingerprint is CD1B 6A9F 2FB5 648B F9DD 286A 01D8 DEE8 2C6E F13B.