Henrik Karlsson returns to Dialectic. One of my 2025 highlights was meeting one of my favorite writers in Copenhagen and interviewing him on my fairly new podcast. It was a fan favorite. This conversation may have topped it. I talked to @phokarlsson about smashing mental models, navigating confusion, and why getting lost is part of creating the new. We discuss: - rejecting our mind's tendency to hold onto neat, legible ways of seeing (knowledge shields) - why risk should be unevenly distributed, and how Brian Eno uses success to take greater creative risk - why artists ought to embody a ballerina's balance - his obsession with artists' (Bergman, Grothendiek, Knausgaard's) private notebooks - why great art "spits you back out" - introspection as subject, not object - like Nick Cave and Rick Rubin - remembering what childlike desire is like - what he believes in, in the cosmic sense - his late grandfather Nils: an ordinary, extraordinary man Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening Highlights...