Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
Why I went back to MyMind as my central hub for visual inspiration
Writing notes is really pretty easy, once you get the hang of it. And it’s a way of proving to yourself (and eventually, to others) that you’ve understood the text. Our notes can also provide us some clues into what in a text actually interested us. Where a source’s ideas really excite us, notes will cluster. Even so, we should try to write a
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Here's a simple thing you can do when traveling to countries where they don't speak the language. For many years, I gratefully used Google Translate to capture the nuance of what I wanted to say. But it turns out that's not always what you want. I have a little prompt I copy and paste into Claude or Gemini. The prompt is basically: "I'm going to
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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.
Manchmal frage ich mich, ob ich ohne diese Prokrastinationsspiralen produktiver wäre. Erfolgreicher. Ausgeglichener. Oder ob gerade dieses Hadern, dieses ewige Ringen mit mir selbst, nicht auch eine Form von Qualitätskontrolle ist. Ob nicht gerade die Deadline – dieser Sonnenuntergang der Arbeitswelt – eine Art kreatives Momentum erzeugt, das
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