The podcast influence my main YouTube channel Creating this podcast and all work that is connected with it is now influencing my main YouTube channel. I am not talking about the video version of the podcast, no I have a main channel where I create tutorials about the internet and […]
Monthly Archives: September 2021
16 posts
The opposite of the silent Swede In my next episode, I want to talk about how we Swedes forget all about not thinking we are anything special, how we get loud and sometimes even obnoxious, and how we suffer from anxiety as the main ingredients in our hangovers. But I […]
What is the law of Jante? Don’t think you are better than anybody else! That is how the law of Jante could be simplified, and this sentiment has in large colored the social culture and norm in the Scandinavian countries, and I as a Swede grow up with this as […]
I missed posting both Tuesday and Thursday so in today’s post I will try to sum up the week that passed and what is coming up tomorrow. I really hope that this week was an exception and my life will be back on track again so this lack of posting […]
First Impression If you are on vacation in Sweden your first impression might be that Swedes are unfriendly, distant, and very quiet. And you would be partly correct. But that is until you get to know them a little better. Today I want to explain some of the traits we […]
So today I am looking back, and I am going to share some statistics and numbers with you but regardless of what the numbers say I am very happy with these results. The response I have gotten from my friends are overwhelmingly positive, and my own feeling as I continue […]
The silent Swede or why Swedes don’t talk to strangers Very often when people meet us Swedes for the first time, their first impression of us is that we are quiet, distant, and maybe even unfriendly. And that is partly correct. But that is just until you get to know […]
Why todays topic? There have been more times than I can count since I first moved to the US 18 years ago that people who meet me for the first time mistake Sweden for Switzerland. This is more common than people actually know where Sweden is, or know anything about […]
It has now been five days since I launched A Swedish Fika, and I will try to collect some thoughts about this time. I will try to look at what has happened, both good and not soo good, in parts. First I will talk about the audio podcast, secondly the […]
Every Tuesday I will write a bit about my upcoming podcast episode, today being the first post of the kind. Here I will talk shortly about what topic I have chosen and why. But before I get into today’s post I just want to announce a few changes in my […]