Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
I like the process of choosing the words I commit to posterity on the internet. I don’t just like it, I cherish it . That’s why, when I outsourced this task to AI in an attempt to be more productive, I was left unimpressed, and gradually, I stopped trying to use LLMs altogether.
Rhea Purohit • You’re Probably Using AI Wrong
Goals are tools to shape who you become, and if you don't set sufficiently ambitious ones, you're unlikely to grow.
Nat Eliason • 293: Big Goals
Many notes shouldn’t live in a dedicated note taking app that you explicitly have to open and search. Notes should emerge automatically whenever and *wherever* they are most relevant.
Julian Lehr • A Meta-Layer for Notes
“The one thing parents can do for their children is live their lives as fully as they can, for this will open the children’s imagination, grant permission to them to have their own journey, and open the doors of possibility for them. Wherever we are stuck, they will have a tendency to be stuck also or will spend their life trying to overcompensate.
... See moreOne of the greatest tragedies of modern technology is entire generations afraid to sit with their own thoughts.
Bryce Robertsx.comSimulate future journal entries
Next, I asked Claude to write future journal entries. First, I asked it to journal about how I would feel if we raised a small round for Every (which we did):
“Based on these journal entries, please write a new journal entry as me with how I’d feel if we raised a small $700k round for Every. Try to simulate me and my... See more
Next, I asked Claude to write future journal entries. First, I asked it to journal about how I would feel if we raised a small round for Every (which we did):
“Based on these journal entries, please write a new journal entry as me with how I’d feel if we raised a small $700k round for Every. Try to simulate me and my... See more
Dan Shipper • AI Can Help You Make Big Life Decisions
After feeding Claude his past journals, Dan Shipper let AI write his future entries based on that knowledge of him. As this has been things in the past, the future mapped out by Claude has already happened, and it was surprisingly accurate.
"The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank." — Steven Johnson
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We solved the engineering for our painted-sky backgrounds. More importantly, we discovered something: Art direction is product architecture. It makes trade-offs clearer, keeps the experience coherent, and gives people a reason to choose your product in a world where AI can generate the median in seconds.