While I certainly hold true that anyone has the right to believe anything, an important negative side of religion or any belief has become clearer to me. A belief can become a barrier to discover truth. A belief is a substitute for facts. It is often difficult for a person to want to search out facts in an area where a belief is held. Religion contains a composition of beliefs. If held strongly enough, the... Read more!

Increase your productivity. Create better ToDo lists. Describe projects and processes more consisely. Reduce any concept down to pure simplicity. Use HyperList. You can put any description of anything down as a simple HyperList. On paper, on a board, in a document. HyperList itself is just a way to describe stuff - some rules and ways to make descriptions simpler. And now this method is released in a new version - 2.4. It has been... Read more!

A lot is happening over at the Amar wiki. With plenty of new ideas from players and with solid play testing, some fundamental concepts have come to the fore. Having developed role-playing game systems for more than 35 years, I thought I had covered most bases. But then came my 16 year old son Jonatan and beat me hands down. He has devised a rather neat new way of thinking about magic in a fantasy... Read more!

Here’s a neat little thing I just discovered: Gource - a software version control visualization tool And I used it to create a visualization of the development of this site (isene.org) since I launched it as my new home last summer, using Jekyll as my platform: Just some summer geekery :-) Link to this post: https://isene.org/2019/08/isene-org.html Read more!

A screencast presenting some of the most sexy features of the HyperList VIM plugin. If you don’t know the text editor VIM, you should. If you don’t know what HyperList is, read this OnePageBook. My very first screencast introduces the HyperList plugin for the VIM text editor. It is one of the most feature packed plugins of the thousands of VIM plugins out there. In the screencast, I cover some cool features that may inspire... Read more!

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” (Mark Twain) “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” (Marcus Aurelius) It’s a hard hitting provocative OnePageBook. We nkow it will not go down as popular with some people. But that may just be all the more reason to publish this and let... Read more!

You manage to get out of bed in the morning. You manage to get your clothes on, fix breakfast for the whole family, drive and drop kids off at school. You manage to get to job before 9. But then… you get managed until 4pm. Then at 4 you manage to drive home, stop by the store, make food, drop one kid off at soccer practice and the other at the tennis court. You manage... Read more!

While I have previously covered the ability to like anything, I have now taken this to a new level: Enjoy everything. It was a tough climb to 1238 meters above the sea level. Not having slept much the days before or eaten enough to embark on this adventure, it was tougher than two years ago when I first got to the top of Tromsdalstinden. The views from the top is stunning. Silent, tranquil, magnificent. It’s... Read more!

I’ve had the pleasure working more closely with a truly great guy the past few weeks - Øivind Haugland. He’s an excellent sounding board and he gets me thinking. Like what the exact value of what I do really is. And it boils down to this: Making Everything Simpler. Like HyperList for structuring information in a simpler way. Or the OnePageBooks. Or my explorations of Free Will. These are all efforts to simplify. Whenever I... Read more!

The album “A Tribute to Purpose” is now available on Spotify. It includes new remixes of music I have released recently. Having had a resurge in my artistic purposes lately, I created this as a general tribute to purpose - whatever that may mean for you. Check it out: My first album (published in 2016): Link to this post: https://isene.org/2019/06/Purpose.html Read more!

First: Here is a presentation of the project (download pdf) Secondly: We are holding an open meeting in Oslo on June 14th 17:30 at Mariboes gate 8. You are invited to come for the recent news and to ask any question you like. We will cover everything from updates on the various parts of the project, when we accept applications, how the training will be done, what to expect as a student, progress on funding... Read more!

My son Jonatan came home one day from kindergarden and asked “Daddy, do you believe in reality?” That sparked an interesting mind-popping session where we talked about the nature of reality, cosmology, quantum mechanics and free will. This was 10 years ago and he was 5. Jonatan has continued to challenge me and teach me. I decided to put together my latest creative works into a video. Jonatan, this is for you. And then I... Read more!