2025 är året då jag tog tillvara på alla tillfällen att fira, vandra och fotografera. Det som firats mest är att jag sa upp mig. Alla firade dock inte mig, vilket tog oväntat hårt. I krönikan bjuder jag på bildkavalkad från Korsika till Liseberg.
Min andra arbetsdag satte jag mig på fakirplanet till Bryssel för EU-projektkickoff.
Min sista arbetsdag lämnade jag in utkast på slutrapport om trender som påverkar läkemedelsindustrin.
Däremellan Spanien, Schweiz och Serbien. Jag har modererat paneldebatter, fotograferat konferenser och deltagit i hundratals möten.
Läs gärna om vad jag lyfter fram som höjdpunkterna från min tid på IKEM.
Four events in four days on behalf of IKEM – from PFAS and smart materials to future pharma skills and international perspectives on industry change. Great fun! And on top of it meeting my readers in France
What does a World Heritage copper mine in Norway have to do with pharmaceutical skills in 2030? Read my August recap to find out. I share updates from the ChemSkills project (on behalf of IKEM), reflections on how industries rise or fall – and a few photos from above and below the surface.
In my June recap, I reflect on how we relate to deadlines.
Some of us thrive on last-minute pressure. Others – like me – prefer to trick ourselves into starting early. A recent project meeting made me think about the different ways we get things done, and how a bit of self-awareness (and teamwork) can make all the difference.
May turned out to be a month of waiting — for green lights and go-aheads that didn’t quite come. Instead of sitting still, I accepted an invitation to work from Corsica, mixing Teams calls with exploring. And just as the month was ending, my long awaited new book finally arrived from the printer — along with the first enthusiastic comments from readers.
What’s really the safest path these days — one full-time job or several smaller ones? That’s one of the topics in this recap, along with how a photo from Paris can give the wrong impression.
The highlight of the month was sending a long-awaited book to print, fifteen years after I first started it. About time, if I want to keep my tagline I get things done.
We often talk about how to say no (and that’s something I really need to practice). But this month I wanted to focus on the times when saying yes has turned out well. Like twelve years ago, when I was asked to write a travel guide to Nice — and now I’m holding yet another updated edition in my hands. Or when I said yes to another EU-funded project, which meant I went to Brussels twice this month. Some choices really do age well.
2024 startade med studs i steget. Jag förnyade garderoben och återknöt kontakten med personer från förr. En svettig och produktiv sommar gjorde mig utsövd och redo för hösten. Då avrundades ett roligt projekt med en vecka i Schweiz. Däremellan skvallrar årets instagramtopp om en del besök i fjällen. Höjdpunkterna var många under 2024, ändå lägger jag det lättat till handlingarna och satsar på nya tag nästa år. I inlägget får du reda på varför.
In this recap, originally posted on LinkedIn, I share how useful it was to write a summary of the year and to attend a Christmas lunch with IKEM featuring a mind-blowing talk by Ola Rosling about facts, data and how easily our worldview gets distorted.