Escaping Flatland

How can we rejuvenate the social fabric?

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Jul 8 • Henrik Karlsson

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June 2026

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!

Jun 25 • Henrik Karlsson

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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.

Jun 22 • Henrik Karlsson and Johanna Karlsson

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Notes on Bakhtin

La Grande Plage à Biarritz, Jacqueline Marval, 1923

Jun 2 • Henrik Karlsson

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May 2026

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…

May 20 • Henrik Karlsson

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The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot

Nothing was as scary as we thought, and everything was weirder and more friendly.

May 6 • Henrik Karlsson

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April 2026

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.

Apr 27 • Henrik Karlsson

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How to walk through walls

On hacker mindset

Apr 14 • Henrik Karlsson

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Days are enormous

+ personal update and reading recommendations

Apr 1 • Henrik Karlsson

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March 2026

Some relationships deepen when you tell the truth and some end

I asked people to send me stories about situations where they had done what felt right to them, even though they feared social pushback.

Mar 11 • Henrik Karlsson

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February 2026

Getting a better sense for when you’re thinking well and when you’re faking it

Notebook. On mental proprioception

Feb 26 • Henrik Karlsson

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The need to make art

The work was what connected him to himself.

Feb 18 • Henrik Karlsson

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