Escaping Flatland

Swimming in July

Just the pure physical joy of thrashing your arms around in water. To fill the kid’s buckets and throw it at the sun—the way the water falls apart into…

Jul 24 • 

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Garlic and gravel

fragments

Jul 12 • 

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June 2024

Advice from my editor

A sculptural representation of JS Bach’s Fugue in E Flat Minor by Henrik Neugeboren “I can’t make myself finish this one,” Johanna said one night when…

Jun 19 • 

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Thoughts on agency

Gustav Klimt, Beech Grove I, 1902

Jun 12 • 

Henrik Karlsson

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May 2024

Don’t sacrifice the wrong thing

I began emailing essays into the void on 30 May 2021, 53 days before Rebecka, our youngest daughter was born. This writing experiment has followed…

May 30 • 

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On having more interesting ideas

“To write well, all you have to do is cultivate your mind and then write what you see.” When I talk to people who have worked with their ideas seriously…

May 15 • 

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On shortcuts and longcuts

There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they make. This gives the path a lovely human fit. But…

May 8 • 

Henrik Karlsson

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Johanna Wiberg

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In praise of insular groups

Last spring, as we were exploring the coastline of our island, Johanna, the kids, and I crossed a meadow where two men were artificially inseminating a…

May 4 • 

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April 2024

How to think in writing

Part 1: The thought behind the thought

Apr 25 • 

Henrik Karlsson

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Reading challenging books with kids is fun and probably useful

I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three years old, in late toddlerhood. 25th of July 2020. I…

Apr 2 • 

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March 2024

On limitations that hide in your blindspot

and how to find them

Mar 18 • 

Henrik Karlsson

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Johanna Wiberg

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Self-help for cocoons

and what's on my mind

Mar 7 • 

Henrik Karlsson

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