# Carl Moberg

> Technology executive, co-founder, and Field CTO based in Stockholm. Writer of a TIL (Today I Learned) blog covering curious facts across history, science, language, and culture.

Carl Moberg is a technology executive with a 25-year track record in infrastructure automation and AI deployment. Co-founder and CTO of Avassa Systems. Previously Senior Director of Product Management at Cisco following the $175M acquisition of Tail-f Systems. Published author, patent holder, and conference speaker.

## Pages

- [CV](https://cmoberg.com/cv): Full professional background including work history, board experience, patents, publications, and selected talks.

## Blog

- [How Thunder Was Initially Stolen](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2024-11-08-how-thunder-was-stolen/): Today I learned that the idiom "stealing thunder" has a surprisingly literal background.
- [The Swedish song that Elvis sang](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2024-01-31-how-swedish-thou-art/): Today I learned "How Great Thou Art", one of the world's most well known christian songs, has Swedish roots.
- [Pendletones for Beach Boys](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2023-03-01-the-beach-pendletones/): Today I learned that The Beach Boys initially and briefly took on the name The Pendletones.
- [A Stanford-horse first!](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2023-02-23-a-stanford-horse-first/): Today I learned that the first movie ever made features a horse from Stanford, owned by Leland Stanford, in a scene shot at Palo Alto Stock Farm (that would eventually become the site of Stanford University).
- [The Lemniscate of Infinity](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2023-02-01-infinity-lemniscate/): Today I learned that a more formal name of the algebraic shape commonly known as the "infinity symbol" is lemniscate.
- [Aiming with electro acoustics](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2023-01-25-electro-acoustic-aim/): Today I learned that visually impaired athletes competing in biathlon use camera-based optical sports rifles.
- [A most fashionable fishnet](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2023-01-08-fashionable-fishnet/): Today I learned that the cotton fishnet shirt known in Jamaica as the mesh marina has Norwegian roots.
- [Knock-knock might just be the oldest joke](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2023-01-04-knock-is-the-oldest/): Today I learned that the knock-knock joke may have its roots in Act 2, Scene 2 of Macbeth from 1606.
- [The pom-pom, protector of heads aboard ships](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2022-12-24-pompom-head-protector/): Today I learned that the pom-poms common on knit hats has an unexpected history.
- [A Valley of Uncanniness](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2022-12-21-a-valley-of-uncanniness/): Today I learned that the uneasy feeling I get from seeing badly rendered humanoids is described in a hypothesis called the Uncanny Valley.
- [Genetic lefties is a thing](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2022-12-17-genetic-lefties/): Today I learned that while handedness is epigenetic, those who are left-handed due to non-genetic (but environmental) reasons have statistically significant lower annual earnings than righties.
- [Snow on the preppy beach for Hip Hop](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2022-12-10-preppy-snow-beach/): Today I learned that preppy fashion crossed over to hip hop culture by Raekwon turning (it) up in the Ralph Lauren "Snow Beach" jacket in the Wu-Tang Can it all be so simple video from 1993.
- [The Clavicle is a key](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2022-12-09-clavicle-is-key/): Today I learned that the clavicle, also known as the collarbone, gets its name from the latin clavicula (the diminutive form of clavis), meaning "key, bolt".
- [There was a hippie funeral...](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2022-11-09-hippie-funeral/): Today I learned that the community anarchist group "The Diggers" held a mock funeral for the Hippie movement in 1968 in the Haight Ashbury area in San Francisco.
- [The first comic superhero wore a top hat](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2022-10-29-superhero-in-top-hat/): Today I learned that Mandrake the Magician was the first comic superhero.
- [The little fuel cap arrow that could](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2022-10-28-little-gas-arrow/): Today I learned that many car makes and models have a small arrow by the gas pump symbol on the dashboard.
- [The oboe rules the pitch](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2022-10-27-oboe-rules-pitch/): Today I learned that orchestras tune to the oboe, and they tune to 'A4' at 440 Hz[^1].
- [Arizona simply does not observe daylight saving](https://cmoberg.com/blog/2022-10-26-arizona-does-not-care/): Today I learned that the state of Arizona does not observe daylight saving time.