Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
To find my voice . It took staring down my 50th birthday to believe I had a valuable perspective to share. My writing to that point had been private musings in a journal or business memos.
Robert Breen • Why Blogs Matter
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
... See moreDon’t become overprotective of your main notes to the point where you stop making them. A main note’s contents can be as simple as an idea and a link to other ideas.
Bob Doto • A System for Writing
Auf meiner Seite roch es unter der Kuppel der Linden, die über den Zaun des Friedhofs wuchsen, durchsichtig süß. Und von den Kastanien am Straßenrand mischte sich ein Hauch vom Herbst hinein. Dass in allem Anfang immer schon ein Ende lag! Aber dieser dunkelgrün-bittere Geruch der Kastanienblätter machte die helle Süße der Lindenblüten noch
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Internet Gems: Modern Website Inspiration — ilovecreatives
ilovecreatives.com
The condition in which the mind “stands back” to observe its own state and activities is called metacognitive introspective awareness. 13 Attention, on the other hand, can’t observe activities of the mind because its movements and abstracting of information from awareness are activities of the mind. In other words, we can’t attend to attention.
... See moreCuladasa John Yates • The Mind Illuminated - A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science
I pretty deliberately don't use tools that have AI built into them. I use specific AI tools for specific things. For example, I'm not a big fan of Notion with its built-in AI. I like to draft a piece in Obsidian or IA Writer. A piece I write starts on my Freewrite, which is a smart typewriter without an internet connection. I sit at that writing
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