Escaping Flatland
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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The hyperlocal (opens the original)
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Some remarks on being stuck, with digressions on David Hockney, developing style, and gardens (opens the original)
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First we shape our feedback loops; then they shape us (opens the original)
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On having more interesting ideas, pt. 2 (opens the original)
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On child birth (opens the original)
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