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Escaping Flatland

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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.

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About Henrik Karlsson

Swedish essayist. I used to be a programmer and last worked in an art gallery. I write about things I like--relationships, literature, agency, attentiveness escapingflatland.substack.com/

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