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Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog
What’s odd about you is what’s interesting.
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Henrik Karlsson
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A funny thing about curiosity
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to others. But to go there you have to do things that…
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Henrik Karlsson
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Bring everything into the conversation layer
A conversation is not an interface that lets you get to know each other; it is an interface that lets you savor and get enriched by the Otherness of…
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Henrik Karlsson
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December 2024

November 2024

Rationality is an underrated way to be authentic
John Stuart Mill, notetaking, rationality, and emotion
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Henrik Karlsson
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Living 80 years, you can have 8 lives
Highlights from the cutting room floor, pt. 2
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Henrik Karlsson
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6 lessons I learned working at an art gallery
On agency, doing value-aligned work, and making your job fun
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Henrik Karlsson
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Ethos and imagination
Milk Drop Coronet, an ultra-high-speed photograph of the splash of a drop of milk, Harold Edgerton, 1957
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Henrik Karlsson
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October 2024

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