Escaping Flatland

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…

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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.

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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.

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How to walk through walls

On hacker mindset

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Days are enormous

+ personal update and reading recommendations

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March 2026

Differently free

Me getting interviewed by Jackson Dahl

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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.

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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.

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Things that connect us to ourselves, and things that don't

Notebook + recommendations

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January 2026

On political power

Reflections on Robert Caro’s LBJ biography

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On the preparations before writing an essay

Shooting raw footage

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