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May 2025

On the pleasure of reading private notebooks
One reason I like this genre is that people censor themselves less when they are writing in private.
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Henrik Karlsson
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When writing, look at what you are trying to describe more than at your words
9 reflections
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Henrik Karlsson
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What problem should you be working on now?
How to filter problems worth solving from problems worth quitting?
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Henrik Karlsson
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Drift
Right now it is April 18 and I am walking along the steep coast at the peninsula on the Northeastern corner of our island.
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Henrik Karlsson
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April 2025

Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meet
Sometimes two people will stand next to each other for fifteen years, both feeling out of place and alone, like no one gets them, and then one day, they…
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Henrik Karlsson
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The newness of depth
Fragments from the cutting room floor, vol 4
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Henrik Karlsson
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Repeat great words, repeat them stubbornly
Intensely Human, No 4: The Envoy of Mr Cogito
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Henrik Karlsson
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Take a part of the world that you love and give it your care
Edward Weston, Armco Steel, Ohio, 1922
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Henrik Karlsson
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March 2025

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