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The third chair
I remembered my loneliness; I felt it with a defencelessness that I had denied myself at the time. The feeling that writing was impossible; that I would…
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Henrik Karlsson
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Integrity
Intensely Human, No 3
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Morning ritual
+ reading recommendations
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January 2024

After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative
For many decades, it seemed professional Go players had reached a hard limit on how well it is possible to play. Then AI beat them.
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Henrik Karlsson
27
Life update
+ open thread and a few fragments of essays
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Henrik Karlsson
42
Almost everyone I’ve met would be well-served thinking more about what to focus on
Including me
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December 2023

A greeting
They think it was a monk at the Monastery of St Alban in Trier, present-day Germany. On Christmas day, sometime in the 1570s, he was out walking when he…
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Henrik Karlsson
6
A summary of what I wrote in 2023
In 2023, I published 37 essays. I’ve spent the better part of the morning going through it all to see what the themes were—it is quite surprising to…
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13
Seeing people clearly
Head of people operations for the entire friend group
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Socratic dialogue with kids
I’m simply trying to understand how she thinks. When she answers in a way that does not match my understanding—that is interesting to me.
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Henrik Karlsson
11

November 2023

Pick an audience that likes the illegible you of today, not your past achievements
Though we talk about “the individual vs the collective,” as if that dichotomy is an eternal truth about the world, there exist groups that encourage…
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Talking to part of a friend
Finding an authentic connection based on who you are now, not who you were in the past
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