Breaking Through Constraints (SSIR)
An Essay in Which My Friend Feels Stuck and I Suggest Relaxing Some Constraints
Henrik Karlssonhenrikkarlsson.xyzThis makes me realize that what I said earlier in this essay is not enough. You can’t simply list what you want to do and figure out how to do more of that. You also need to surface the unarticulated constraints that you have floating around, and that are making what you were born to do needlessly hard or impossible. You must bring into light the... See more
Henrik Karlsson • An Essay in Which My Friend Feels Stuck and I Suggest Relaxing Some Constraints
What my friend says sometimes bewilders me because he looks like a thirsty person standing right in front of a glass of water, yet when you suggest maybe he should drink it, he goes, “No, can’t drink that. There is a wall in the way.”
No, there isn’t!!
This makes me realize that what I said earlier in this essay is not enough. You can’t simply list... See more
No, there isn’t!!
This makes me realize that what I said earlier in this essay is not enough. You can’t simply list... See more