My vital father, Ove, was a headhunter for 30 years. So was I.

As his 90th birthday gift, I extracted and digitally preserved his algorithm — the patterns and quiet loops behind nine decades of decisions.

He once said, “Why do people wait until the obituaries to say all the nice things?“

I didn’t wait.

But this isn’t just about my father. It’s a pattern study — the same method we’ve both applied professionally for over three decades to identify top talent.

The same loops show up in everyone. My father has his algorithm. You have yours.

What remains consistent is structure. There is no right or wrong — only what is repeated.”

From this came “The Algorithm: The Saga of Ove T. Schoyen” — a book and an extraction report, both free in digital form.

— Christian Schoyen