From the Desk of Alf Rehn
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End of an Era
So, this might be one of the last emails I send… from this platform. I've decided to leave the system that runs my website and this newsletter, and as advertised, that will mean folding this email-list into another, the one I have on Substack. You'll still get emails from me, just in a slightly d...
May 25, 2026
Round and Round We Go…
So, I am still considering folding this into my Substack, but truth be told I've been far too busy to get around to do the move of my website. The book on crime may be done, but there are always research applications to write, courses to give, keynotes to present, and other publications to finish...
May 08, 2026
A Sign of Things to Come
Dear reader, you are getting this email because you at some point, possibly enticed by a book I'm sharing, signed up for my email-list. Let me say that you are all dear to me (my finger slipped just then, and I first wrote "dead to me", which is a very different thing), and I appreciate you. That...
Apr 16, 2026
Deadlines and Slop Work
So, this email is again a bit later than planned, but there's a reason. I've been deep in work, getting various project sent in or at least ready to be so. The book on crime is on the home stretch, have two other pieces that should be sent off soon, and various projects starting up. It's all a bi...
Mar 17, 2026
Data, data, data
So, as of late I've been working with numerous projects that in various ways deal with data. Data as object, data as subject, data as ontology, data epistemologies, and data as difference. Data, as a phenomenon, might seem self-evident, but is actually a rather mysterious one. I spend quite a lot...
Feb 27, 2026
Things Cheap and Expensive
So, what have I been up to? Well, various things. No, not writing in a café in Paris while looking particularly hunky and swole (I wish…), as that's just some AI-funnies, but quite a bit of writing. Still working on the Crime-book, spent some time translating my old book "Innovation" to Danish,...
Feb 13, 2026
Of Crime and Comedy
So, as a way to procrastinate and not write on my book on management and crime, coming later this year from Bloomsbury, I've been watching the rather brilliant Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!, a tender documentary that shows how even the zaniest of comedies can be built on a lot of deep thinking...
Jan 29, 2026
The Power of Procrastination
Well, friends, so far 2026 has been all about headcolds and procrastination. I'm supposed to be working on the manuscript for Bloomsbury, and although I still have 2,5 months to delivery… Let's just say I've been quite productive in other writing! Which is OK too, it all counts. Anyway, today's l...
Jan 13, 2026
Not Dead Yet
Yeah, I know… It's almost like I've abandoned these missives from my desk, my dispatches to my private list. That's not true, however. What happened was that I went to Brazil, had a lovely two weeks off, followed by one week of being completely and utterly smashed to smithereens from the return j...
Dec 17, 2025
Notes on the Architecture of Innovation
So, the autumn has started with me working on a lot of writing projects, getting things submitted, talking with various writers and publishers, and also trying to figure out how not to get too fragmented. I've not always succeeded. That said, the books (yes, plural) are coming along, and I'm look...
Sep 17, 2025
A Turn to Art
Summer passed, and man, it felt like it passed at speed. I had a lovely summer, crowned by getting married to my beloved Mette on the quays by Knippelsbro (it was an incredibly sunny day, we had the most amazing long table set up by the wine-bar who hosted the event, and seeing as how many touris...
Sep 01, 2025
Summer Is for Writing
This will be the last missive from The Desk of Alf Rehn for a while, as I am now going on what some people refer to as "a holiday", but which in my world is often better spoken off as "blessed time to write the things I want to, rather than the ones I need to". So yes, I am taking time off of bas...
Jun 30, 2025