Weekly review cw 30

Sensation: Domain only secured after launch

After the YouTube channel launched last week, it's slowly becoming clear: This podcast is being run seriously… Of course, it is, and the domain must be secured accordingly. Typically, the domain is secured with a project idea, and the project never advances beyond the idea stage. This time, it's the other way around – the podcast is active, and I'm subsequently lucky with the domain. That could have gone wrong. The use of the domain server-side-stories.de is still unclear. Currently, a redirect to the konzentrik subpage is set up.

Podcast with Max and the Hmm Hell

This week, events have been unfolding in rapid succession. On Monday, Maurice and I met with Max Knoblich. After trying remote recording a few weeks ago and failing with the Riverside-Linux combination, we opted for face-to-face recording this time. We had the next episode in the can just in time before bands started rehearsing in the adjoining rooms of the music bunker.

Perhaps it was the fascinating subject, or maybe it was because Maurice and I are polite. We had to cut a lot of affirmative “hmmms” from the episode. I consciously created some of these sounds, and Maurice could hear them during the editing process. But subconsciously, the affirmative humming sound came every ten seconds. It was so annoying that it had to be removed. As is the case with the subconscious, it won't be easy to improve this. But difficult is no reason not to try. This feedback then flows into the podcast diary… A treasure that we collect episode by episode, to one day reflect on in a special episode.

The Unforeseen Consequences of the Bullet Journal

I've only been keeping my bullet journal for less than a year. This means I'm missing notes and thoughts from almost half a century that, I thought, were lost forever. I can't change the past. That's why I'm doing better now. I end my day in the evening with reflection. This includes planning the coming day. Something remarkable happened this week that can bring back what, I thought, was lost forever. I've incorporated a new component into this habit.

In my current reading, “Storyworthy” by Matthew Dicks, the author made a recommendation that I'm following. I sit down for at least five minutes, usually up to fifteen, every day and write down my stories. Starting with the story of the day: What moment was special today? After just a few days of this exercise, old stories come to mind, which I immediately jot down. These are things that, as mentioned above, seemed lost and are now coming back. It's a remarkable experiment, and I'm still at the very beginning of it.

Until now, I've laughed at such exercises. I didn't follow a recommendation from my books, like jotting something down every night because there was no habit I could build on. And randomly jotting down something in a notebook to make something happen to me – I don't need such nonsense. That's what I thought. And once again, the Bullet Journal has made something possible that I couldn't have imagined before.