The hyperlocal
The Artist and His Model, Edvard Munch, 1919-1921 Read more 
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写作者 Henrik Karlsson 在创意爆发期遇到严重的产出阻塞：想法很多，但三个月几乎什么都没能成型。他把这个状态比作进了一百扇没有把手的门。 回顾自己过去五年写的最好的文章都是在经历了2014到2019年五年的实验期之后才出现，他认为现在是尝试新写法、进入新一轮实验阶段的正常阵痛，但同时也感到困惑——为什么这几个月的工作几乎什么都没产生实际成果。
我们先塑造反馈回路，然后它们塑造我们
2019年作者开始给日记建索引后，写作质量出现明显跃升。作者认为，给日记建立索引创造了反馈回路——写下的东西不再被遗忘，而是可以被回顾和重新思考，这种回路反过来塑造了写作能力。
培养孕育新想法的心智状态
Sam Altman 认为好点子很脆弱，共同办公空间会杀死它们——因为别人一嘲笑，创始人就会把想法改成"听起来合理但无关紧要"的东西。数学家 Grothendieck 20 岁时在蒙彼利埃孤立自学三年，重新发明了已被知道三十年的测度论，这段"浪费时间"的经历反而让他具备了突破既有框架的能力。 文章的核心判断：真正原创的工作来自独处时培养的内在感知力，而非社交环境中的灵感碰撞。 
关于产生更有趣想法的几点思考（续）
给自己设定约束（尤其是令人反感的约束）能逼出更有创意的想法。 丹麦导演拉斯·冯·提尔与托马斯·温特伯格在1990年代末发起Dogme 95电影运动，要求影片不使用道具、配乐、人工布光等。参与拍摄的导演们起初都抱怨规则，但最终拍出的作品在各大电影节大获成功。 冯·提尔认为，正是这些约束迫使创作者跳出常规思维。其他导演在成功后回归无约束创作，却再难复制之前的成果。一个关键洞察是：当你被迫接受一个别人不会自愿接受的约束时，你被从熟悉的环境中连根拔起，必须解决别人无需面对的问题，从而进入别人到不了的思想领域。
On child birth
Double portrait, Lucian Freud, 1985-86 An hour before the birth of our first child, the midwives had a changing of the guards, and we were assigned a new midwife. She wasn’t there long—she mostly gave...
Escaping Flatland meetups summer 2026: times and places
There has been a flurry of activity in the chat over the last two months, and we now have meetups arranged in 47 cities in 22 countries! A big thank you to everyone who has stepped forward to organize...
How not to forget what matters
1. Every few months I will read a tweet, or have a conversation, that makes me feel this is important, I must remember this. Often, these epiphanies are accompanied by a sense that I actually know thi...
Notes on Bakhtin
La Grande Plage à Biarritz, Jacqueline Marval, 1923 Read more
Love is to be invested in someone's continual expansion
This is the fifth part of a series on relationships begun with “ Looking for Alice ” ( which is about how I met my wife Johanna), “ Dostoevsky as lover ” (about our early years together), “ Relationsh...
The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot
通过少年骑行遇善人、被邀请参加音乐节的真实故事，揭示“步行者能见世界真貌”的哲理：主动信任与 playful 探索能打破自我设限，持续拓展人生边界。
Thoughts about making a career as a writer
Bouquet of Peonies,Claude Monet, 1887 In the last post, I wrote about the hacker mindset—the habit of unseeing the superficial levels of a system so you can get to know the underlying details and lear...
On hacker mindset
In March 1991, Robert Rodriguez, then 22 years old, decided to write and shoot three feature-length home movies to gain experience making full-length films, in case he ever received an offer to direct...
Days are enormous
Evolution of the Cosmos from a single point (Bindu), c. 1700 Since I began working on this essay three hours ago, around 21,000 people have, statistically, died. Now the sky is low and cloudy; I’m fee...
Some relationships deepen when you tell the truth and some end
The Promenade (study), Claude Monet, 1886 1. Opening up new surfaces in relationships Two weeks ago, I asked people to send me stories about situations where they had done what felt right to them, eve...
Getting a better sense for when you’re thinking well and when you’re faking it
The Dancing Class, Edgar Degas, 1871-72 Here are some notes about something I’m trying to get my head around. I would appreciate feedback and reflections! At the end are some recommendations of films ...
The need to make art
Peatery in Drenthe, Vincent van Gogh, 1883 In the 1930s, people on the island where we live would go down to the old coal pit after thunderstorms, the village historian told me. They went looking for ...
Things that connect us to ourselves, and things that don't
At the end of the post, I’ve listed some good things I’ve read / watched / listened to recently. Here is something I’m think about— The day before we left for Málaga, Johanna was talking to me about h...
On Political Power
From Lessons in Darkness, Werner Herzog, 1992 I recently reread The Path to Power, the first part of the biography of President Lyndon Johnson, which Robert Caro has been working on since 1976. Before...
Being creative requires taking risks
When children learn to draw, they tend to make more and more interesting images for several years until around age five, when they learn to be boring. The multicolored hedgehogs with 47 legs give way ...