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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.
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Not dating
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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.
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On notetaking and open-ended conversations

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Henrik: I’m going to create word embeddings for Karl Ove Knausgaard's book Inadvertent. We are going to use the word embeddings as your memory of the…
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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.
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In a world of information abundance, how do you find good influences?
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A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox. It is like summoning…
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On the 17th of March 2022, Christopher Alexander, the architect and mathematician, passed away. Alexander, whose intellectual influence extended far…
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A conversation with Discrete Lizard
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An essay is made up of two layers: the ideas, and the language in which they are expressed.
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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…
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Escaping Flatland

Anthropologist gone native on the internet. How can we help each other grow into people who can solve the problems we will face?

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