Björn Jeffery

Toca Boca’s first horror movie! For kids of course. Watch out for Toca Boo on October 23rd. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Nuances, finally. (via In defense of screen time)

new-aesthetic: New Norwegian currency design by The Metric System (front side) and Snøhetta (back side). Slik blir de nye sedlene fra Norges Bank – Næringsliv – E24 [English translation] Design Concept from Norges Bank [PDF]

Touché.

Clue, an app that enables women to track their menstrual cycles, has brought on three new investors to its latest seed round bringing its total investment to €1 million thus far. Clue received €500,000 from a previous seed investment round in February 2014. The angel investors joining are Björn Jeffery, CEO of Toca Boca, and previous Spotify executives Andreas Ehn and Sriram Krishnan. “Confident, scientific and not pink” is Clue’s style. I made my first […]

There are no grown-ups. We suspect this when we are younger, but can confirm it only once we are the ones writing books and attending parent-teacher conferences. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently. What You Learn in Your 40s – NYTimes.com

I’ve become strangely fascinated by The Bling Ring. It’s not a new story, but it’s one that illustrates how celebrity culture can get the best of people – even the ones in the periphery. And how meta it quickly becomes when the people admiring and trying to imitate the celebs, become just this through the process.  If you haven’t heard about it, this is a very brief summary: A bunch of teenagers want to live […]

What is unhappiness? Your intuition might be that it is simply the opposite of happiness, just as darkness is the absence of light. That is not correct. Happiness and unhappiness are certainly related, but they are not actually opposites. (…) And matters are hardly helped by nature’s useful idiots in society, who propagate a popular piece of life-ruining advice: “If it feels good, do it.” Unless you share the same existential goals as protozoa, this […]

“About a year and a half ago, Haig began working on an ingenious device called the Mineblock. A physical object powered by the credit card-sized Raspberry Pi computer and not much larger than your hand, the Mineblock does just one thing: run a private Minecraft server.” (via Mineblock envisions a troll-free Minecraft universe – Kill Screen – Videogame Arts & Culture.)

My newborn daughter, Miranda Vox Elisabeth Jeffery.