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Live Feed
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Mission
Flourish through expressing my best self. The deepest impact I can have.
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TELOS
M1Build the energy that makes everything possible: body, mind and spirit
M2Strengthen human agency through morally ambitious, beautifully crafted work
M3Love well: be present, joyful, encouraging
P0Most people don't believe they have something to offer
P1Broken world models
P2We can't aim for what we've never seen
P3Companies aren't legible to AI
P4AI help goes to those who need it least
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Predictions
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Projects
technical
Hanlon. My company. I help small Nordic service businesses use AI well. hanlon.agency
LifeOS. My personal AI operating system, a fork of Daniel Miessler's LifeOS. Fixes go back upstream.
ecal and emal. Small command line tools for Apple Calendar and Proton Mail that my assistant drives.
hjbrandt.me and hjbrandt.cv. My own sites, redesigned this autumn.
creative
Hans Hug. DJ sets, over a decade of Oslo and Copenhagen nights. The mixes are on SoundCloud as Hans Hug.
personal
Bouldering and climbing projects in Oslo.
Skateboarding and surfing when the season allows.
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Offering
A free AI fit check. Twenty minutes in your own AI, and you keep the report. hanlon.agency/fit
A free 60-minute call about where your business stands with AI.
I redesign how a small service business works so AI does the routine and people do the craft. Your team keeps the skill.
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Requesting
I want to meet owners of Nordic service companies with 4 to 30 people who want their team to do better work, not more of it.
A Nordic stage, from January 2027, for a talk on how AI closes the gap between where you are and where you want to be.
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Resume
2025–now
Founder · HanlonI help small service businesses hand the routine to AI and keep the craft with their people.
2022–2024
Senior Designer · Gyldendal RettsdataLed the design system work on the Rettsdata product team.
2020–2022
UI/UX Designer · VevCreated Vev's visual language and built the Figma component library.
2018–2020
Front-end developer · Making WavesFrontend consultant for Entra, SATS, SAS and the Ocean Data Foundation.
2010–2012
Community Planner · Very AgencyBuilt Burn Energy as a brand in Norway's snowboard and skateboard scenes.
2006–2014
Professional athlete · Oakley, DaKine, Burn EnergyFreestyle skier in slopestyle. European Open, world cups, World Championships, ski films.
ongoing
DJ · Hans HugOver a decade of clubs, bars, basements and galleries in Oslo and Copenhagen.
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Preferences
Languages: TypeScript, and Rust when a compiled binary is needed
Runtime: bun
Design tools: Figma and Paper
Works in Norwegian and English
Metric units, Europe/Oslo time
Decisions: one defined problem, three viable options, one recommendation
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Routine
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Books
"Waking Up" by Sam Harris
"Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman
"One Blade of Grass" by Henry Shukman
"21 Lessons for the 21st Century" by Yuval Noah Harari
"How to Change Your Mind" by Michael Pollan
"Stealing Fire" by Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal
"The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence" by Josh Waitzkin
"The 4-Hour Workweek" by Tim Ferriss
"Deep Work" by Cal Newport
"Principles" by Ray Dalio
"Getting Things Done" by David Allen
"The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries
"Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug
"The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman
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Movies
The Godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather Part II (1974), Francis Ford Coppola
The Dark Knight (2008), Christopher Nolan
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003), Peter Jackson
Pulp Fiction (1994), Quentin Tarantino
Forrest Gump (1994), Robert Zemeckis
Fight Club (1999), David Fincher
Inception (2010), Christopher Nolan
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Podcasts
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Signal
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CONSUMER—
Ephemeral fields carry an expires stamp and are stripped at the edge once stale. Agents welcome.