US/DK citizen. Voice behind the "How to Live in Denmark" 10-minute podcast. Author "The Danish Year" and "How to Work in Denmark". Keynote speaker.
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Joined February 2011
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New "How to Live in Denmark" podcast episode! "The Danish Brick." 🇩🇰 🧱
The Danish brick is the basis of almost every Danish home, school, church, and public building: 95% of Danish homes have a brick facade, and builders of concrete apartment blocks...
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Fan of Roland Mouret? Check out this gorgeous pink/red "Lucille" dress up for auction on Lauritz.com with a low initial bid. #rolandmouret lauritz.com/da/auction/rolan…
Booking a speaker about hygge, life in Denmark, or Danish business culture? Check me out on Speaker Hub, @speakerhubHQ.
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Very excited that my hometown team, @Brewers, have won their first-ever World Series! A great effort by a nice bunch of guys. Congrats.
...out front.
But that all changed in the 1930s, when the newly-founded Aarhus University was building its campus.
A local brick company offered one million yellow bricks free of charge, and the architects accepted.
Yellow bricks suddenly looked chic and modern, and...
began to be used much more widely in prominent buildings.
Listen to the "How to Live in Denmark" podcast free on Spotify, Audible, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
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As an American who has lived in Europe for more than 25 years, I meet this type of hopeful newcomer a lot. They assume they'll get everything they have in the US *plus* everything available in Europe. But the systems often contradict each other, economically and culturally.
The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean. buff.ly/5cLtnha
For example, our "free" (taxpayer-paid) public health care in Denmark is very reactive: you go to the doctor when you're sick. There's very little preventative care, like an annual physical, and you can't order up, say, a blood test just because you think it's a good idea.
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Business delegation visiting Copenhagen? Book Kay Xander Mellish for a presentation on Danish business culture, including sustainability, flat hierarchy and work-life balance.
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Not a Catholic, but I'm enjoying this book, even though it's written in that very simple, 4th grade vocabulary, NPR style. (Both of the authors are NPR journalists).
Pope Leo is from Chicago, near where I grew up, and he seems like the right man 1/2
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Love this idea. When I work with kids, I find they're fascinated by space and tech (along with sharks and dinosaurs). Now all we need is a pop-up version of these books. Can't beat a pop-up.
my kids keep hearing about Palmer and the boys.
went looking for children’s books they could read to learn about how these guys locked in and what they're working on now. but it's all outdated content mill slop or woke anti-tech propaganda.
so we did some research with @grok and made our own this weekend. now getting a few copies printed so they can take to school.
want the PDFs? let me know
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I hid Easter eggs in ALT text, video descriptions, and social media posts to see if they would turn up in AI results. Here's what happened.
Fun experiment I did, hiding bits of information in social media posts to see if they turned up in AI results. Several did, but one AI service also insisted I liked anchovies on pizza, which I do not.
linkedin.com/pulse/can-you-m… via @LinkedIn
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I just landed in Copenhagen for my dad's 70th birthday (!), so wanted to cover a fascinating European airline...
Four years ago, SAS filed for bankruptcy.
Now it is profitable, ranks No. 3 globally for punctuality and is buying 69 aircraft.
It cut costs, left the alliance it helped found and stopped pretending Scandinavia needed three equal hubs.
Here’s how it rebuilt the airline around CPH.
