Reminders for myself
- I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that. I made it easy for interesting people to find me, and then I hung out with them. We did projects together.
- I kept iterating—paying attention to the context, removing things that frustrated me, and expanding things that made me feel alive.
- Eventually, I looked up and noticed
Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
Henrik Karlsson - Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
-Write in books that you own.
-Buy more books than you'll ever read.
-Read whatever books that interest you.
-Quit bad books to make room for brilliant ones.
-Read books in all formats (print, ebook, audiobook).
-Buy more books than you'll ever read.
-Read whatever books that interest you.
-Quit bad books to make room for brilliant ones.
-Read books in all formats (print, ebook, audiobook).
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Alex & books
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One reason I like this genre is that people censor themselves less when they are writing in private. I don’t mean that they are saying things that would get them ostracized in print (though that happens). I mean uncensored more generally: they allow their mind to be as it is on the page, however odd their thoughts are and however random the connect... See more
Henrik Karlsson • On the pleasure of reading private notebooks
Henrik Karlsson: On the pleasures of reading private notebooks
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