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Lessons I learned working at an art gallery
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Henrik Karlsson
I write essays about relationships, thinking, and agency, sometimes with my wife. We live on a windswept island in the Baltic Sea with our two daughters. Click to read Escaping Flatland, by Henrik Karlsson, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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How to think in writing
The thought behind the thought
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Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog
What’s odd about you is what’s interesting.
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When is it better to think without words?
Non-verbal, blurry thinking is faster and can search in a broader way, but it is more error-prone than verbal thought.
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Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas
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Think more about what to focus on
Including me
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A blog post is a long and complex search query to find people (2022)
When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.
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Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
The context is smarter than you.
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When I have a slower publishing cadence my blog grows faster
When I started writing online, the advice I got was to publish frequently and not overthink any single piece. The logic was this: the outcome for blog posts is a heavy-tailed statistical distribution—most pieces will be read by barely anyone, but a small subset of outliers will do hundreds if not thousands of times…