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…
 • Henrik Karlsson
Looking for Alice
Not dating
 • Henrik Karlsson
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
The context is smarter than you.
 • Henrik Karlsson
Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog
What’s odd about you is what’s interesting.
 • Henrik Karlsson
Dostoevsky as lover
Looking for Alice, part 2
 • Henrik Karlsson
Relationships are coevolutionary loops
Looking for Alice, part 3
 • Henrik Karlsson
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas
 • Henrik Karlsson and Johanna Karlsson
A list of books and essays that I love
I’m purposefully not looking at my bookshelf to make sure I only pick books that I’ve thought about so much that they immediately occur to me.
 • Henrik Karlsson
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…
 • Henrik Karlsson
How to walk through walls
On hacker mindset
 • Henrik Karlsson
Childhoods of exceptional people
Let's do more of those
 • Henrik Karlsson
Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom
When people talk about the value of paying attention and slowing down, they often make it sound prudish and monk-like. But we shouldn’t forget how…
 • Henrik Karlsson
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