Popcorn Eating Unicorn
I make complicated things less stupid.
Drones · Emergency Response · Media · AI · Automation · Probably another side project
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I was never particularly good at school.
More accurately, I was never particularly good at learning in the way school expected me to.
Sitting still, following a fixed path and learning something because I was told I should never worked especially well for me.
Give me a problem I actually care about, though, and things are very different.
I can disappear into something new, teach myself what I need to know, build it, break it, start again and lose considerably more hours to it than was probably reasonable.
As I have got older, I have realised that I actually love learning.
I just like learning by doing.
That is probably the common thread between media, cameras, drones, emergency response, software, AI, automation and the many strange side projects I have become obsessed with over the years.
So, yes.
Problembarn.
Just perhaps not for quite the reason my teachers thought.
I have a tendency to get stuck on things other people have learned to live with.
Why are we doing it this way?
What are we actually trying to achieve?
Who needs this?
What happens before and after this step?
Could we make it simpler?
Is there a better way?
And only then: is there a tool that could do this better?
Sometimes the answer is a new system.
Sometimes it is an automation.
Sometimes it is changing one stupid step.
And sometimes, annoyingly, the old way was right.
I work somewhere between technology, people and operations.
These days that means drones, emergency response, workflows, automation, AI, training, operational systems and a suspicious number of APIs.
A lot of my work starts by understanding what somebody is actually trying to achieve, what is getting in the way, and what a sensible way of doing it would look like.
Sometimes that becomes software. Sometimes a workflow. Sometimes a procedure, training course, integration, drone operation or small tool.
I often sit between technical people, operational teams and management, translating what each side needs into something people can actually use.
Technology for its own sake does not interest me very much.
Making it useful does.
A searchable memory of meetings, conversations, ideas and decisions.
Ask for a link →A local-first activity and project tracker for Chromebook, because the existing options did not quite fit.
Ask for a link →Connecting pilot certifications, flight records and operational systems without people manually copying data around.
Ask for a link →A visual thinking and content-planning tool for cards, freeform ideas and AI sketches.
Ask for a link →Small interactive tools for making technical subjects easier to understand.
Ask for a link →Experiments that exist mainly because I wanted to know if they could work.
Ask for a link →Questions, rabbit holes and real work. Not an employment history.
2020–2021 · Gjerdrum
During the landslide response, I worked with the drone team to get live data, thermal imagery and 2D/3D mapping to the rescue organisation. The flight was only part of the job. The information had to arrive quickly enough to help people on the ground.
2021–2024 · CBRNE · Norway + Poland
The Norwegian-Polish CBRNE work brought together field tests, training, procedures and drone operations. One practical result was a 3D-printed holder: familiar handheld sensors could go on ordinary drones, instead of requiring a whole new specialist sensor package.
2023 · Krakow / Poland
A meeting of crisis-management people, responders and researchers, comparing problems rather than collecting conference badges. Drone mapping for Norwegian emergency centres was one of the practical cases discussed.
2024–2025 · CoSky · Poland + Norway
CoSky explored safer coordination of drone flights and useful mapping during crisis operations. I joined the final conference discussion on practical drone mapping experiences from emergencies in Poland and Norway.
2025 · ESA / Arctic Eye
The question grew from drone mapping to a bigger operational picture: satellite data, drone imagery and AI working together. Tiepoint’s ESA-backed project explores how to get useful information to emergency responders when time and terrain make things difficult.
2025 · European emergency-drone work
The DIREKTION webinar brought together responders, researchers, air-navigation specialists and industry to discuss drones in emergency response. I contributed Tiepoint’s perspective to the conversation about safe, workable airspace coordination.
2026 · Red Hat Innovate Together · Oslo
Upcoming · 22 October 2026Next question: making emergency-response processing useful where the work actually happens, with local infrastructure rather than a distant promise. Red Hat Innovate Together takes place in Oslo on 22 October 2026.
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Okay. I’ll go with this.Not looking for a job. Just curious about things.
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