Kristofer Palmvik.
E-mail
kristofer@palmvik.sePhone
+46 705 886414
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Kristofer PalmvikHamngatan 16 D
582 26 Linköping
SWEDEN
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About Kristofer Palmvik
I love to develop useful and cool things with lots of data. Love to work with other people. Love to travel the world.
MSc Information Technology with specialization in Media Informatics. Professional experience of software engineering, ranging from modern frontend web to high-performance databases and cloud infrastructure.
Interested in working with product development in a web based environment. Quick to learn new skills and handle new situations. Thrives in a demanding environment together with a great team.
Aim to be a valuable part of a small company and develop a world leading product or service with high quality and professionalism.
See my professional experience and current position on LinkedIn. Let's connect!
Currently reading
I enjoy reading books about a wide range of subjects.
- Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse by Luke Kemp, and
- AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models by Chip Huyen.
A recent favorite book is Wool (Silo, #1) by Hugh Howey.
My notes
Observations on building software, working with teams, and exploring the world. A mix of professional thoughts and personal logs.
- 2026‑04‑21
The manual is missing – we are writing it
The feeds make it easy to feel left behind when it comes to AI. But history proves the hype is usually louder than reality. Since there is no manual for this era, trying things and sharing even the mundane experiences could be useful. We are writing the manual.
- 2026‑04‑08
The AI writes the code, but the team decides the direction
I have barely typed a single line of code at work for more than a year. Using LLMs and AI agent has changed a lot. But we still need the collaboration in a great team to make sure we go in the right direction.
- 2026‑04‑05
Deconstructing LinkedIn with systems thinking
Stop reading LinkedIn at face value and use systems thinking to map out the consequences and mental models the author missed.
- 2026‑03‑20
Wasted time is unfortunately a prerequisite for value
Impact in knowledge work isn't linear. Most of the day can feel like a waste, and then you make a breakthrough that changes everything.
- 2026‑03‑18
The best colleagues don't keep their knowledge to themselves
The most valuable colleagues aren't just individual experts. They are multipliers who prioritize sharing knowledge over hoarding it.
- More of my notes...
Whitebrd.
A public collection of links I'm reading and referencing since 2008. Articles, tools, and resources relevant to my work and interests.
- 2026‑04‑27
Ghosted – Both sides of a broken hiring process
The Swedish UX hiring market is failing both sides at the same time. The infrastructure between them was built for a different era. Nobody has rebuilt it. AI has accelerated the breakdown without fixing the underlying problem. Candidates send hundreds of applications into the void. Recruiters drown in noise they cannot convert into signal. Both sides end up performing for a system that serves neither.designloop.se - 2026‑04‑27
Single Player to Multiplayer: AI, Context, and Collaboration – John Cutler | ShipSummit | Rise8
Product expert John Cutler delivers a thought-provoking talk on one of the most underexamined risks of the AI boom: that the same tools promising to supercharge teams are quietly pushing people into single player mode. Using a sci-fi movie framing and cognitive science concepts like the four E’s of cognition (embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive), John makes the case that real understanding isn't something individuals bring to a room — it's something teams produce through interaction. He introduces three forms of metacognition teams need to develop in an AI-saturated environment, and offers a practical framework for knowing when to work alone versus when multiplayer sense-making is essential. A grounding counterpoint to the productivity hype, and a challenge to use AI as a catalyst for collaboration rather than a substitute for it.youtube.com - 2026‑04‑27
0,75x speed
Feeling productive is somewhat addictive. Listening to sped-up podcasts, getting summaries of books, letting the AI build projects for you while you are sleeping. But what is “productive” in this sense? If it didn’t need to be done from the beginning, does doing it anyway still count? Another way of thinking about this newly found efficiency is going in the opposite direction. What can you do, that the AI can’t? How you can shape a point of view that a large language model never could?bjornjeffery.substack.com - 2026‑04‑27
Fewer ideas, but better
It’s not that ideas three through seven are bad, per se, but more so that they take valuable time and space away from the best ideas. Applied to story, the word ‘ideas’ could be replaced with many things. Fewer plots, but better. Fewer characters, but better. Fewer themes, but better. Fewer scenes, but better. My stories get in trouble when I try to do too much.nathanbaugh.substack.com - 2026‑04‑23
The Lazy Tyranny of the Wait Calculation
There are really two questions that matter when it comes to the Wait Calculation for AI: How good? And how fast? In other words, how good can this particular run of AI technology (either LLMs or their immediate successors) get in terms of human achievement; and how fast will this happen?oneusefulthing.org - More of my collected links...