How is music possible(henrikkarlsson.xyz)
134 points by rafaelc | 87 comments
An essay by Henrik Karlsson on Escaping Flatland exploring why music moves us, weighing music psychology, Schopenhauer's metaphysics, and emergence as explanations.
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Looking for Alice (2023)(henrikkarlsson.xyz)
19 points by noleary | 1 comments
The Third Chair(henrikkarlsson.xyz)
7 points by delichon | 0 comments
Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself(henrikkarlsson.xyz)
707 points by jger15 | 194 comments
An essay by Henrik Karlsson on Escaping Flatland arguing that sustained attention to almost anything makes it loop on itself and bloom into richness.
Lessons I learned working at an art gallery(henrikkarlsson.xyz)
431 points by bkudria | 166 comments
Henrik Karlsson's Escaping Flatland essay sharing six lessons from working at an art gallery, on agency, value-aligned work, and making a job fun.
How to think in writing(henrikkarlsson.xyz)
357 points by Luc | 110 comments
Essay by Henrik Karlsson on Escaping Flatland about using writing as a tool for thinking, Part 1: The thought behind the thought.
After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative(henrikkarlsson.xyz)
364 points by iNic | 184 comments
Essay by Henrik Karlsson on his Escaping Flatland Substack about how professional Go players improved and became more creative after AI surpassed them.
