Escaping Flatland

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

Differently free

Me getting interviewed by Jackson Dahl

Mar 23 • Henrik Karlsson

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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.

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

Notebook + recommendations

Feb 6 • Henrik Karlsson

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January 2026

On political power

Reflections on Robert Caro’s LBJ biography

Jan 28 • Henrik Karlsson

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On the preparations before writing an essay

Shooting raw footage

Jan 15 • Henrik Karlsson

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Being creative requires taking risks

When children learn to draw, they tend to make more and more interesting images for several years until around age five, when they learn to be boring.

Jan 7 • Henrik Karlsson

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