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Geir

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I write – fact, fiction and poetry; I philosophize, build companies, speak to small and large groups on most any topic, make artwork, music and games, program computers and old calculators, do crazy stuff.

I am a nerd. I love mathematics, astronomy and astrophysics, particle physics, chemistry, hardware and software and stuff that amazes me.

I help people – coach, mentor and inspire others to reach their goals and potentials.

On the professional side: I head Team Infrastructure at Dualog, run Make it Simple AS for high impact projects, and build Passion Fruits, an AI tutor platform. From 2012 to 2024 I worked with Brendan Martin in our company Å.

Back in 2000, after 10 years as the CEO of the recruitment company U-MAN Norge, I moved on and started a consulting company together with my wife; Creo Pario AS I then started working for the leading Norwegian Linux company Linpro AS. From March 2003 till March 2004 I was the CEO. In the summer of 2004 me and my wife started FreeCode – a company fully dedicated to free software. We expanded to 20 people in Norway, more than 50 internationally (in 7 countries). In early 2012, we sold the company to the wrong people who ran it into the ground.

I was born in Oslo, Norway in 1966.

I have four kids. We love kidding around, building Lego and do other fun stuff, like role-playing games.

If you came directly to this “about”-page looking for information on me leaving the Church of Scientology, then you will find this information on a separate page.

I started my blogging on Scientology a week after I left the church (2009-08-07) and decided a year later to let that blog my old IT blog fade and move all my blogging to my Wordpress site. After having exhausted all my various viewpoints on Scientology, I have resumed my basic, nerdy self - but still very much on a spiritual path in life. Contact me if you wonder what that is all about.

My basic principles in life

Captured in a series of very short videos:

Coaching and public speaking

You can book me for seminars and talks on a wide range of topics, personal and business coaching and business consulting.

I can give talks about anything – from motivation, organizational and personal efficiency, how to give talks and effectively coach people to subjects such as astrophysics, free will, raising of children, recruitment and much more. I never hold the exact same talk, seminar, workshop or training session twice. It is always tailored to the audience, always different and never dull. Fiery, often crazy, sometimes outrageous but always aimed at creating real value for the participants. I have held hundreds of very successful talks with rave reviews. You can have a pile of references from people who have been blown away from attending one of my seminars, talks or workshops.

My tools (the geek stuff)

I use Linux on a Dell XPS with my own window manager and X server, tile and frame, from the CHasm suite written in x86 assembly. I write in scribe, read mail in kastrup and keep my calendar in tock, all from my Fe2O3 suite in Rust. Most of it is built together with Claude Code. And as requested by Nils, here are the LaTeX files for my CV.

Coaching

If you are looking for very direct and effective coaching by me, do these short steps:

  1. Read the OnePageBooks
  2. Listen to this podcast
  3. Watch these videos:

Then send me an e-mail.

Esport and mental training

I coach and train top esport contenders through the AW3 brand. Before we start, do the following:

  1. Read the blog post, “Parents; Embrace your kid’s gaming”
  2. Watch the video, “Mental training in eSports”
  3. Listen to the podcast, “Mental Training”
  4. Read the OnePageBook, “Mental training - The core”
  5. Listen to the podcast, “Why mental clarity and presence give top performance”
  6. Listen to the podcast, “Getting in The Zone - creating thoughts and feelings”
  7. Read the blog post, “The RALE Scale”
  8. Read the article, “Coaching and mental training”
  9. Watch the video, “Kluber ENDURES shower of sunflower seeds!”
  10. Write me an e-mail (g@isene.com) explaining what you got out of the above, and what you want from mental training

Astronomy

Watching the moon, planets, stars, clusters and galaxies is pure therapy. It helps you get a grand perspective of life, universe and everything. Problems that seems huge to you become tiny in comparison. You change your focus from yourself to everything out there. Vistas open up. It’s a great tool to help those who are struggling.

I got my first telescope for X-Mas when I was 12. A 60mm f/15 Fujinon refractor. It was a great beginner’s scope that gave me years of enjoyment. My fascination with astronomy started 4 years earlier when my mother pointed to the night sky and said “Do you see those three stars up there? That is Orion’s belt”. I was hooked. I started reading. And calculating. And dreaming of a telescope. My interest rocketed when I got that scope. After a year of attending meetings in the Norwegian Astronomical Society, I became a board member when I was 14. I started attending classes at the university the year after and submerged myself in astronomy, mathematics and physics. Life was exciting and wondrous.

Another wave of wonder came when I bought my compact Meade ETX90 telescope in 1997. The very portable telescope made it possible to watch the night skies wherever I went on vacation.

Then, in 2014 I got a really big scope, the 8 inch Meade LS-8. The telescope is fully automatic - it aligns itself, taking into account the time and place that it acquires from GPS satellites, direction to north acquired via a compass, it adjusts for levelling and takes images of a few stars to finely adjust itself. All this while it talks about what it’s doing :-) I sold the LS-8 in 2026.

The ETX90 and the much larger LS-8 are of similar design. They use mirrors to make the scopes more compact and portable.

While both Meade telescopes are great for the night skies, they are not great solar telescopes. While they can be used for observing the sun in normal light (using a filter in front of the telescope), they cannot be used for observing the prominences on the Sun’s edge. To see those marvellous explosions on the Sun, you need a refractor (a telescope with only lenses and no mirrors) and a filter that only let through lights at a very specific wavelength - the Hydrogen Alpha wavelength of 6562.8 Angstrom.

In 2019 I took the giant leap and got a truly amazing refractor telescope - the Sky-Watcher Esprit 150ED on a EQ6-R Pro SynScan mount together with a Daystar Hydrogen Alpha Chromosphere filter. The telescope, although it gathers a bit less light than my Meade LS-8, it has far better contrast, shows details of planets better and has a much sturdier mount. With this telescope I can see details of the Sun and I can get into astrophotography like never before. But most importantly, I can help people get new perspectives in life. I use the scope as a primary tool in coaching.

Here is my unboxing video of the Sky-Watcher:

And here is a list of my most important equipment. I do have more eyepieces and lots of filters, but these are the main tools:

Telescope Type Objective dia (mm) Focal length (mm) Focal ratio (f/x)
Sky-Watcher Espirit APO refractor 150 ED 1050 7
Meate ETX-90EC Maksutov-Cassegrain 90 1250 13.8
Eyepiece Type Size Focal length (mm) App. field of view Eye relief (mm)
Russell Optics 5 element Super Plossl 2” 50 52 30
Russell Optics 3 element Erfle RKE 2” 41 50
Meade Series 4000 5 element Plossl 2” 40 60 28.2
Sky-Watcher 3 element Kellner 2” 28 56 20
Celestron E-lux 3 element Kellner 2” 26 56 20
Meade Series 5000 7 element MWA 2” 21 100 20
Baader Planetarium 8 element Hyperion 2”/1¼” 24 68 20
Baader Planetarium 8 element Hyperion 2”/1¼” 21 68 20
Baader Planetarium 8 element Hyperion 2”/1¼” 8 68 20
Meade Series 4000 4 element Super Plossl 1¼” 26 52 18
Carl Zeiss ? 1¼” 20 ? ?
Celestron 4 element Plossl 1¼” 15 50 13
TMB SW 6 element Plossl 1¼” 9 58 12
Tele Vue 4 element Plossl 1¼” 8 50 6
Meade 4 element Super Plossl 1¼” 6.4 52 5
Vixen NPL 4 element Plossl 1¼” 4 50 3
Seben 6 element Zoom Plossl 1¼” 24-8 60-40 20
Sky-Watcher 3 element ED 2X Barlow 2”
Celestron X-Cel 3 element 2X Barlow 1¼”