diego
@diegitsen
ios engineer @ manychat
diego
diegitsen.com
I tend to find myself most satisfied when ambitions stay strategically big and loud while my everyday acts remain small, tactful, underwhelmingly simple.
2026 for the gentle and the curious
journal 001
diegitsen.github.io“I don’t really pursue a destination,” he said. “I pursue a direction.”
Brie Wolfson • Flounder Mode
Reading Anna Karenina and just got hit with: “He walked down, for a long while avoiding looking at her as at the sun, but seeing her, as one does the sun, without looking.”
Seeing her as one does the sun without looking???? Tolstoy you dog, you scoundrel, you prince, it’s gorgeous
Nicolaia Ripssubstack.compretty
Rituals are gentler than resolutions. Where resolutions chase outcomes, rituals attend to process. Georgia O’Keeffe took a 30-minute walk each morning in the desert, often alone, believing the walking itself was where the work of painting began. Toni Morrison rose at 5, made her coffee, and waited for the sun to appear—or, as she put it, “watched... See more
Against resolutions
Letting my tears flow knowing they are watering my faith and God is counting and bottling them as a sweet outpouring unto Him.