A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find ...

A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox

Henrik Karlsson • A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox

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How I Use AI to Sharpen My Taste and Pursue the Real Me

because taste is self-pursuit—and self-pursuit requires taste

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Jul 16, 2025

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Most people think AI makes you lose yourself. That it kills taste. That algorithms flatten us into sameness, rewarding short attention spans, cheap aesthetics, and dopamine over... See more

How I Use AI to Sharpen My Taste and Pursue the Real Me

The people you will be able to have deep conversations with have, like you, already been surprised by the simple, clear things. They need more to get high. And this “more” will be wildly idiosyncratic. It cannot be summarized in a list of writing rules.

So what do you do?

You ask yourself: What would have made me jump off my chair if I had read it... See more

Henrik Karlsson • A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox

even if I do have a blog, you’re probably still going to go through this research process—because what you’re really interested in is seeing my writing in the context of how other people feel about my writing too.

How I Use AI to Sharpen My Taste and Pursue the Real Me

Henrik Karlsson • A Blog Post Is a Very Long and Complex Search Query to Find Fascinating People and Make Them Route Interesting Stuff to Your Inbox

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