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6 lessons I learned working at an art gallery
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On agency, doing value-aligned work, and making your job fun
on Nov 13
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Popular education in Sweden: much more than you wanted to know
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Growing up on the Swedish seaside, I had a five-minute walk to four open learning facilities – not counting the library and the youth center. It was very Christopher Alexander.
on Oct 17
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Pseudonyms lets you practice agency
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I don’t think I would have become a writer if it wasn’t for the internet forums of the early 2000s.
on Sep 23
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This is the second part of an essay series that began with “Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process.” It can be read on its own.
on Sep 10
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The mechanism of “writing about the same complex topics, using unique word pairs, pulls similar thinkers together” reminds me of neuroplasticity and how neurons that fire together wire together.
on Aug 31
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Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
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The context is smarter than you.
on Aug 6
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On having more interesting ideas
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“To write well, all you have to do is cultivate your mind and then write what you see.” When I talk to people who have worked with their ideas seriously for 10+ years, it feels like I can throw any topic on them and they’ll have an interesting idea, or if not an idea so at least an unexpected...
on Jul 22
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Relationships are coevolutionary loops
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Looking for Alice, part 3
on Jul 21
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Controlling a complex system is rarely as effective as allowing it to self-organize: markets work better than planning committees; diverse ecosystems are more robust than monocultures. What would it mean to apply this idea to education?
on Jul 1
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First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us
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You are always internalizing the culture around you. Even when you wish you didn’t. So you better surround yourself with something you want inside—curate a culture.
on Jun 25
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Reading challenging books with kids is fun and probably useful
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I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three years old, in late toddlerhood. 25th of July 2020. I was doing the dishes. Maud came in. “I have looked a little in books,” she said.
on Apr 4
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On limitations that hide in your blindspot
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and how to find them
on Mar 22
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I remembered my loneliness; I felt it with a defencelessness that I had denied myself at the time. The feeling that writing was impossible; that I would never find a place in the world that felt like home; that no one except my wife would ever care about me, about the things that for me held meaning.
on Mar 1
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You can tap your fingers so that the world you live through the screen becomes a piece of art.
on Jan 27
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After AI beat them, professional go players got better and more creative
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For many decades, it seemed professional Go players had reached a hard limit on how well it is possible to play. Then AI beat them.
on Jan 25
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When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.
on Jan 5
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When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.
on Jan 5
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Almost everyone I’ve met would be well-served thinking more about what to focus on
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Including me
on Jan 4
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When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.
on Nov 4, 2023