Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
The speaker discusses how the practice of writing and rereading digital diaries provides crucial self-reflection, revealing long-standing personal patterns.
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And I feel like a lot of that has been born out of your practice of writing diaries.
You are correct I started writing diaries as many young people do with like 10 or 12 And I think I found them really to be helpful strangely once I switched to doing them on the computer because my handwriting was so sloppy, specifically in the most interesting
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The strategic advantage of authenticity and differentiation in an age of conformity, advocating for uniqueness as a business advantage.
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See? There's, you know, I started writing this in my head last night.
This is like there an we in what I calling the age this is not the right language but we in the age of undifferentiation In that like everything is the same It seems like everything the same now Like software interfaces just look like they all look like wireframes.
They're all
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Critiquing the modern obsession with speed, advocating for slowness and intentionality as superior metrics for meaningful work.
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And yet, you know, the analog is slower, which is people say, well, it's slower.
And I'm like, yeah, it's slower.
You know I have this long essay written I want to publish at some point about optimizing for speed I think one of the detriments of modern computer era and technology is that we start to think that speed is the best metric for everything
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Understanding creative resistance: The more important a project is for personal growth, the stronger the internal opposition will be.
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Well, that's absolutely true. And what I meant by that was that when we conceive an idea for something we want to do a movie we want to make or a book we want to make it not like at all like what the fantasy was oh I really charged up it going to be great What happens is waves of what I call resistance with a capital R start coming off that
... See moreAlthough he initially found ‘the cult of journaling’ to be ‘a bit wallowingly self-absorbed’, Burkeman tried Morning Pages, liked it, and has since filled stacks of Moleskine and Leuchtturm notebooks with an unsystematic yet productive stream of thoughts, plans, emotions and ideas.
Roland Allen • The Notebook
This is because you can type faster than you can handwrite. When it’s possible to keep up with a speaker and type verbatim notes, that’s what students do: but when using a ponderous pen or pencil, they have to develop alternative strategies to prioritise, organise, abbreviate and structure what they hear. This in turn leads to much better learning.
Roland Allen • The Notebook
Kann sein, dass es manchem wichtig ist, noch mehr zu verdienen als ein anderer. Aber in erster Linie wollen Menschen gemocht werden, egal, wie viel sie auf dem Konto haben.
Christian Streich: "Bin ich wirklich so einfach zu ersetzen?"
Austin Kleon on people who are annoyed by teenagers.
LLMs become powerful when you give them enough context to work with. Not a prompt, not a conversation—actual accumulated data over time. That context comes from years of Day One entries. Daily capture happens through Rosebud—voice notes with immediate AI feedback. When I want deep analysis, I turn to Claude Code.