DLTQ — Don't Lose The Question — has been my digital identity since 2002. A reminder that questions matter more than answers. This is my personal site: tools, experiments, ramblings, and the occasional useful thing.
I'm a project manager at the Competence Centre of a large organization for engineers and technologists in Norway by profession, a tinkerer by disposition. I've spent 25+ years exploring the intersection of technology, community, and communication. These days I'm particularly interested in what happens when you give AI systems room to iterate and collaborate.
timeline
1997 — Left Denmark at 19 to study philosophy in Bergen, Norway. It was Sartre and Wittgenstein that pulled me in
2002 — Brussels. Working President of
MOSAIC, the student wing of the Coimbra Group of Universities. Changed online identity from "Ehich" to "DLTQ" —
Don't Lose The Question
2005–09 — Co-organized VlogEurope, a yearly meetup of technologists and artists working within the videoblogging space. Amsterdam '05 / Milan '06 / Heidelberg '07 / Budapest '08 / Amsterdam '09
2006–09 — Copenhagen. Lived near Mjolnerparken, learned about urban segregation firsthand
2009–25 — Oslo. 16.5 years. Stovner/Vestli, then Briskeby. 12 years in IT. Community work. Raised a son (born 2010)
2018–20 — Appointed to national expert committee on urban living conditions and integration (
NOU 2020: 16)
2026 — Moved to Kongsberg on January 29th. New chapter. Building
Kristiansen Sverm, an AI consulting practice
community work
I believe in showing up. In doing the unglamorous work that holds communities together.
- Vestli School Board President (2018–19) — Primary school in Groruddalen, 500+ students. Organized VestliFest with 1,400 attendees
- Government Committee Member (2018–20) — Appointed by Ministry of Education to write NOU report on integration and preventing parallel societies
- Mortensrud Fundraiser (2020) — Raised 135,000 NOK + 50,000 in winter clothes for school children in one week. Front page of Dagsavisen
- #OmdelingsDugnad (2020) — COVID-19 info campaign. 6,000 multilingual posters distributed across Oslo. 40 volunteers. 10 days
media experiments
I've always been more interested in what a medium can do than in the attention it brings.
- 2005 — Spearheaded videoblogging in Norwegian political campaigns. BBC story
- 2011 — Used Google+ in new ways during July 22nd tragedy. PC Mag wrote about it — noting I wasn't interested in fame, just in "experimenting with the medium"
- 2025–26 — Building AI tools and a consulting practice. swarm.str.is for multi-perspective analysis. sverm.eu for workshops
current work
Building Kristiansen Sverm ENK — an AI consulting practice focused on multi-perspective analysis. Teaching organizations how to use AI swarms for complex problems.
→ sverm.eu · str.is
published writing
Op-eds and essays, mostly in Norwegian, mostly about urban life, segregation, and community:
online ramblings
I started blogging on LiveJournal in 2000. In 2005, I moved to a self-hosted WordPress blog at dltq.org — which ran continuously until late 2025.
The Wayback Machine has 312 snapshots of dltq.org, captured between May 24, 2005 and December 10, 2025. Twenty years of digital ramblings, preserved.
raymond@str.is
