Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
Memento Mori
This spray paint marks trees destined for felling. In a sad way, it reminds me of the finitude of all life, and it's somehow a bit like when death marks a sign on your forehead.
Balancing analog handwriting and AI dictation for different note-taking purposes: reflection versus efficiency in knowledge capture
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We live in an interesting time because the AI dictation has got to a level now that it's kind of a solved problem.
And if you want to just sit there and talk for 15 minutes, sometimes you're going to surface ideas that you wouldn't with pen and paper because we often edit ourselves when we write out longhand. And that is absolutely valuable.
But
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The journey from childhood authenticity to adult self-discovery: reclaiming personal taste, creative confidence, and the courage to define meaning for yourself
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I sometimes think about it in terms of entertaining. I don't know how much entertaining you do. When people say, I'm going to give a dinner party, I'm going to invite some friends for dinner, they get into such a mess thinking, how am I gonna organize this dinner? They go, oh, I must have a starter and maybe it's a melon and or maybe it I don know
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Status anxiety, childhood emotional needs, and learning to accept ordinariness through early feelings of specialness and recognition
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It's funny you mentioned churches. I mean, the really helpful thing about religions is that they tend to tell their believers that someone really knows them and really cares about them and is looking at them.
And if you think about the impulse to be rich and famous and esteemed. It's really a desire that gets soaked up by religions.
Religions are
... See moreThe world contains more uncertainty than we're comfortable acknowledging. We want to believe that if we just think hard enough, gather enough information, and make the right choice, we can ensure success. We want to believe that good decision-making guarantees good outcomes. But it doesn't. Sometimes you make the best possible choice given the
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When you frame a decision as a bet, you're forced to explicitly acknowledge that you're operating under uncertainty. You have to assign some probability to different outcomes, however rough. You have to think about expected value rather than guaranteed results. My friend made a bet that had, let's say, a 70% chance of working out well and a 30%
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If your company isn't giving you the tools to learn to skate like Claude Code or Amp subscriptions, API credits, time to experiment with AI coding, and so on, you're not actually employed. You're in hospice. They're just keeping you comfortable while you become obsolete.
You won't be replaced by AI. That's the wrong fear. You'll be replaced by
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