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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 30/03/2026

Chat, j'ai pété. Thanks Timoté for a great perspective.

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Managing Partner / CEO @ dualoop | Public Speaker |...

Claude and ChatGPT are not productivity tools. They are
the most sophisticated dopamine loops ever designed,
and nobody is talking about it.
Social media took 15 years to master the scroll-refresh-
reward cycle. LLMs did it in 18 months, and they did it
worse.
Every response is engineered to feel like a breakthrough.
Every answer is wrapped in validation. Every interaction
is tuned to make you come back, not to make you think
better.
This is not accidental. This is product design.
The sycophantic tone is a retention feature. The instant
gratification of a perfectly structured answer replaces
the effort of forming your own thought. The illusion of
depth keeps you prompting instead of doing.
Doom scrolling steals your attention. LLM dependency
steals your cognition.
At least with Instagram you knew you were wasting time.
With ChatGPT and Claude, you believe you are being
productive while your capacity for independent

The dark patterns are there if you look. Responses that
always affirm before they challenge. Outputs that feel
complete so you never verify. Conversations designed to
elongate sessions, not resolve problems. Trust
calibration that defaults to maximum so you stop
questioning.
No user control over how much the model flatters you.
No review layer that asks whether you actually needed
that answer. No friction whatsoever between impulse
and consumption.
This is not a tool problem. This is a product-health
problem being ignored because engagement metrics
look great.
The companies building these models know exactly
what they are doing. They studied every dark pattern
social media perfected and built something more
addictive, more invisible, and more defensible because it
hides behind the word productivity.
If you are using these tools daily, ask yourself one
honest question: when was the last time you solved
something difficult without prompting first. If you cannot

Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 09/08/2025

Saw this on LinkedIn and this is exactly the feeling I have right now with synthetic users and a lot of other "let's let the LLM be smart for us" things. Are we just a few people holding the line against madness? :-)

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 30/06/2025

Don't move fast and break things, but don't overanalyze either. This has worked well for me. You can always do something else later.

A saying: Good enough for now, safe enough to try.

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 20/06/2025

I am happy I am not an Atlassian user (at the moment). Things like this would make me utterly disgusted.

Atlassian is sending emails with call to actions endorsed by real people who haven't endorsed them at all.

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 02/06/2025

Very interesting perspective on AI by @karenhao.bsky.social which makes a lot of sense to me. Will read the book.

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 28/05/2025

Yes. That would be great, but there isn't...

Latest episode of the Layover is from two weeks ago on Nebula.

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 23/05/2025

The kids are alright! From my 10-year-old's classroom, principles they've come up with themselves. English in ALT-description.

We help each other.
I take responsibility for my own work and only compete against myself.
We can think and think what we want, but we will not say offensive things to each other.
We listen to each other and respect each other's opinions even if we don't agree.

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 30/03/2025

Maybe not a conscious purpose but for sure the de facto.

Message saying "The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth" written by Church of Jeff.

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 07/03/2025

Not my home but I know my way around

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 08/02/2025

If music is therapy, who's your therapist?

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 27/01/2025

On Thursday lunch (CET), I will share habits of interaction that I have found useful. It will cost you a donation to a charity of your choice. You will get a higher self-awareness in your interactions and a calmer mind. tinyurl.com/bdh2w4fa

Two old geezers talking outside in a park setting, one holding a bike.

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 03/12/2024

Join me on Jan 30th for a larger but more nourishing Lunch n' Learn (CET) over Zoom in which I will share all my favourite communication patterns and protocols for great human-to-human interaction! The cost is you giving what you want to a charity that you pick. houseofevolution.se/event/how-to...

A computer screen displaying an interaction between two people, with the word BOOST written in the corner.

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 02/12/2024

This is thankfully not widespread in Sweden. Maybe my fault since I have defined PD like this and preached it:

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 23/11/2024

If you'd like, quote this with your first anime.

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 26/10/2024

Join me for a remote session on How to Interact More Skillfully with Others... in which I will share all my favourite communication patterns and protocols for great human-to-human interaction! The cost is you giving what you want to a charity that you pick. houseofevolution.se/event/how-to...

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 26/10/2024

Say that you have tried SAFe, realised it didn’t give the impacts you were hoping for, you’ve also tried an Agile approach and that didn’t fly either. Building Effective Organisations is a strategic and systematic approach to become a more impactful organisation houseofevolution.se/event/buildi...

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Martin Christensen @holistictransformation.se · 23/12/2023

Ser du detta, rebluppa med en bild utan förklaring.

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