Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
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.
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You don’t need interesting material. You’re not performing for an audience. You can write about why you chose the lunch you chose, or what you noticed on the walk to the store, or a single, unmarked moment in a conversation that stuck with you. The point isn’t to produce great content. The point is to practice putting thoughts into words.
Joan Westenberg • Why You Should Write Every Day
My daily writing is usually mundane. I’ll work through why I’m annoyed about something in my work or home life, or try to figure out whether I actually need to move to a new note taking app or just want to want to move note taking apps for the sake of it. The topic matters less than the act of forcing vague feelings into specific words. Once
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