self renewal

explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.

rob hardy

“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing” - Ben Franklin

Patrick OShaughnessy x.com

Tired: Rushing to quick answers or public declarations Wired: Sitting with questions, refining them in trusted company, and waiting until the shape of truth emerges

Yancey Strickler x.com

A startup is a story The story is useful because it brings people to work towards something together The story is limiting because employees let it dictate what they can and cannot do The story isn't real - a startup is just people and what they choose to do... See more

Erez Druk x.com

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”

-Anne Lamott

Any situation where you act is a possibility for active introspection.

www.henrikkarlsson.xyz • Two Kinds of Introspection

one of the most exhausting habits, maybe even addictions, is the desire to want to be seen accurately, judged correctly, understood perfectly

there is power in letting distortion exist

when the need to be understood loosens, the energy returns to what actually wants to be made

Leona • Tweet

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Be dangerous, its careful out there

Sitting in your apartment alone radicalizing yourself on the internet is exactly what a hypothetical “evil overlord” would want you to do. The greatest act of rebellion is to go outside and forge relationships and start families and build things that help people and spread love.

www.henrikkarlsson.xyz • Two Kinds of Introspection

Leona • Tweet

Goldie • Tweet