Who is to blame for Europe's declining growth rate?

08. Jul, 2026

Who is to blame for Europe's declining growth rate? I hobby-studied this for 5 years and came to these conclusions:

It's lazy and wrong to just point the fingers at politicians.

New years resolutions 2026

02. Jan, 2026

I love doing new years resolutions and following up on the previous year to see if I made the progress I hoped for

Hosting this website on a laptop in my basement

08. Sep, 2025

It matters very little that I managed to set up my own little server that runs this website and several others via a laptop in my basement. But it feels damn good!

New years resolutions 2025

30. Dec, 2024

I skipped a year. Last time I made a resolution here was for 2023. The fact that I am doing one again now, and generally feel excited about writing in my Read More →

I thought I would be the more dramatic story tonight

03. Dec, 2024

Some people don't get to have a voice. Some truths are forever ignored by the herd.

Tonight I was sharing food at burger joint in Copenhagen central station with a German guy who is on a hunt to find his wife who is gone missing for several weeks.

Tractor tasks 🚜

05. Nov, 2024

I have invented a new mental model:

Tractor tasks 🚜

As a farmer son, and therefore very qualifiied, let me explain it:

Contradictions that make no sense to me

02. Nov, 2023

One of the things that puzzles me about life is how us humans are so full of contradictions. It makes no sense to me.

Good greed

18. Mar, 2023

It must be depressing to be a die-hard woke/socialist. You have to remind yourself every day that human nature is wrong and needs correction.

Greed is evil. "Survival of the fittest" even worse.

My review of Elon Musk

27. Dec, 2022

I have been thinking about Elon Musk a lot this year.

Maybe too much. But at the same time he is arguably the most powerful person on earth.

2023 new year's resolutions

26. Dec, 2022

Every year i make resolutions on this site and call them "yearly goals" or similar.

But I have become old fashioned in between and thought I might as well call it what it is 🙃

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Karsten Madsen

This is my public diary. My passion is to build cool novel things. And to fight for fairness and optimism.

Go to my "about page" if you want to read a longer story :)