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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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On having more interesting ideas, pt. 2
Cutlery designed by Salvador DalíI wrote some thoughts about how to have more interesting ideas two years ago. Since then I have had the privilege of talking about the idea craft with several people who are better at it than I am. So here are a few additi
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On child birth
Double portrait, Lucian Freud, 1985-86An hour before the birth of our first child, the midwives had a changing of the guards, and we were assigned a new midwife. She wasn't there long-she mostly gave Johanna some advice about breathing and told her to get
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Escaping Flatland meetups summer 2026: times and places
There has been a flurry of activity in the chat over the last two months, and we now have meetups arranged in 47 cities in 22 countries! A big thank you to everyone who has stepped forward to organize in their cities.If you're reading this, you're invited
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How not to forget what matters
1.Every few months I will read a tweet, or have a conversation, that makes me feel this is important, I must remember this. Often, these epiphanies are accompanied by a sense that I actually know this already, it had just somehow slipped my mind.And for a
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Love is about being invested in someone's continual expansion
This is the fifth part of a series on relationships begun with "Looking for Alice" (which is about how I met my wife Johanna), "Dostoevsky as lover" (about our early years together), "Relationships are coevolutionary loops," and "When I accept myself as I
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The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot
A short, unedited version of this was published on Notes last year.One of my more important learning experiences was when I was sixteen, and my best friend Christoffer and I biked from Sweden to the Åland Islands in Finland. We didn't have any cell phone
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Thoughts about making a career as a writer
Bouquet of Peonies,Claude Monet, 1887In the last post, I wrote about the hacker mindset-the habit of unseeing the superficial levels of a system so you can get to know the underlying details and learn to manipulate the world in more flexible ways. One exa
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