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How can we rejuvenate the social fabric?
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 • Henrik Karlsson
Escaping Flatland meetups summer 2026: times and places
There has been a flurry of activity in the chat over the last two months, and we now have meetups arranged in 47 cities in 22 countries!
 • Henrik Karlsson
How not to forget what matters
1. Every few months I will read a tweet, or have a conversation, that makes me feel this is important, I must remember this.
 • Henrik Karlsson and Johanna Karlsson
Notes on Bakhtin
La Grande Plage à Biarritz, Jacqueline Marval, 1923
 • Henrik Karlsson
Love is about being invested in someone’s continual expansion
This is one of the joys and challenges of love: the more skillfully you love someone, the more held, encouraged, and accepted they feel, the more they…
 • Henrik Karlsson
The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot
Nothing was as scary as we thought, and everything was weirder and more friendly.
 • Henrik Karlsson
Thoughts about making a career as a writer
How you can finance your creative work and how you can find an audience and peers and mentors who help you develop.
 • Henrik Karlsson
How to walk through walls
On hacker mindset
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Days are enormous
+ personal update and reading recommendations
 • Henrik Karlsson
Escaping Flatland
Escaping Flatland
I write essays about relationships, thinking, and agency, sometimes with my wife. We live on a windswept island in the Baltic Sea with our two daughters.
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