non-artificial intelligence
Personal reflections
What is better than cheap absolutely normal coffee?
Only a few things, perhaps.
I like simplicity. I find it beautiful, what others might call "clean". Basic clothes, that simple yet meaningful essence that makes Uniqlo such a good brand. Or the massive, basic format of Lager 157 that you recognise the moment you walk in.
I remember visiting a Normal store some time ago and getting an impression...
Nostalgia and flashbacks over the cities I never went to.
I remember hearing about the KTH graduation ceremony for the first time when I just started working in a moving company. There were two KTH students working with us over the summer. We spoke a lot about education in Sweden.
Later on, I saw pictures from the ceremony on Facebook. Man, that was beautiful. It looked like a signature landmark to me — years of studies culminated in an exceptional evening.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology holds its graduation ceremony at Stockholm City Hall — the same venue that hosts the Nobel Prize each year. Its interior gives the ceremony a formal, almost historic weight.
KTH was founded in 1827. It has been graduating engineers and architects from this city ever since.
Master’s Thesis on RIX-INST is defended and submitted. It was an exciting process to interview so many experts and professionals from the field of finance in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and even the USA. One gets truly humbled over how many great stories and personalities that this industry has. At the intersection of technology and economics, payment industry is also a critical one — an industry of great importance to any society. Our world today needs reliable and capacious payment systems, ones that would not depend much (or whatsoever) on specific private actors and rely on networks of state actors, whose interest would be to provide efficient and stable payments without profit-driven logics. UPI, PIX, TIPS, RIX-INST. Many more to come. P.S. Speaking of payments, I almost forgot to thank Professors at KTH Royal Institute of Technology for the wisdom, time...
As the Master’s degree program at KTH is coming to its logical end, I will start writing my thesis work in January 2025. The initial idea to investigate retail, POS and payments has now evolved into a more tangible subject – to write about Riksbanken’s payment system RIX-INST.
It reminds me of 2006 and 2007, new Nas album, and “Doctor’s Advocate” from The Game. Kanye West made a verse, hypnotizing music.