Florian Lohse
@florianlohse.bsky.social
I build filmmaking tools.
I wrestle ideas in writing.
www.florianlohse.com
www.artificialocean.net
I wrestle ideas in writing.
www.florianlohse.com
www.artificialocean.net
With too much galaxy brain thinking, you will end up with a pretty solution model for everything, but will always lack the capacity to execute upon it.
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Drive vs. Agency
Feeling agentic and having impact is not the same thing.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
With too much galaxy brain thinking, you will end up with a pretty solution model for everything, but will always lack the capacity to execute upon it.
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notefields.substack.com/p/drive-vs-a...
Between Dubai chocolate, high-end headphones from brands I never heard of, electrical trolleys and overtired toddlers in Batik I found a quiet corner to contemplate my continental identity.
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History Machines in the Margins
What I learned from three hours at Singapore airport and a book about 12th century Java.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Between Dubai chocolate, high-end headphones from brands I never heard of, electrical trolleys and overtired toddlers in Batik I found a quiet corner to contemplate my continental identity.
notefields.substack.com/p/history-ma...
notefields.substack.com/p/history-ma...
I tried to capture the gloomy vibe I feel on my daily commute in the Munich subway. Don’t let a good crisis go to waste.
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Stoic Unsettling
How to deal with a crumbling industry?
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October 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I tried to capture the gloomy vibe I feel on my daily commute in the Munich subway. Don’t let a good crisis go to waste.
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As soon as I put my phone away, stuff that used to make sense starts to break apart.
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Large Language Agency Traps
Using LLMs for life coaching feels great, but how much do we ACTUALLY benefit from it?
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October 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
As soon as I put my phone away, stuff that used to make sense starts to break apart.
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I might visualize my decaying corpse every morning to make peace with the fact that in the end we all will become excellent fertilizer.
But would it help?
But would it help?
"November 15th, 2015: Woke up in the morning, energized. Got stuck on the couch, sore back. Try again tomorrow."
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I Respawn in the Same Place Every Morning - florianlohse.notes
Every day starts in the rubble of broken routines.
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September 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I might visualize my decaying corpse every morning to make peace with the fact that in the end we all will become excellent fertilizer.
But would it help?
But would it help?
"November 15th, 2015: Woke up in the morning, energized. Got stuck on the couch, sore back. Try again tomorrow."
florianlohse.com/notes/I+Resp...
florianlohse.com/notes/I+Resp...
I Respawn in the Same Place Every Morning - florianlohse.notes
Every day starts in the rubble of broken routines.
florianlohse.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
"November 15th, 2015: Woke up in the morning, energized. Got stuck on the couch, sore back. Try again tomorrow."
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florianlohse.com/notes/I+Resp...
Being bold in English is easy. Being sceptical in German is easy too.
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My Globish Identity is Bold and Shallow - florianlohse.notes
The global dialect comes at a price.
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June 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Being bold in English is easy. Being sceptical in German is easy too.
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Slopnik (noun, derogatory):
A person with an unhealthy, excessive dependence on AI assistants, often anthropomorphizing them and exhibiting impaired judgment or social isolation as a result.
A person with an unhealthy, excessive dependence on AI assistants, often anthropomorphizing them and exhibiting impaired judgment or social isolation as a result.
Slopcore
April 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Slopnik (noun, derogatory):
A person with an unhealthy, excessive dependence on AI assistants, often anthropomorphizing them and exhibiting impaired judgment or social isolation as a result.
A person with an unhealthy, excessive dependence on AI assistants, often anthropomorphizing them and exhibiting impaired judgment or social isolation as a result.
The problem with the Turing test: there is a 2/3 chance humans got more stupid, instead of machines getting smarter 🔥
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Stop comparing yourself to AI
Podcast-Folge · The Gray Area with Sean Illing · 31.03.2025 · 56 Min.
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April 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The problem with the Turing test: there is a 2/3 chance humans got more stupid, instead of machines getting smarter 🔥
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software could get grunujpy
Gave the new ChatGPT image gen a screenshot of my blog and got it to fabricate a whole new post
Wonderfully broken, I love it
Wonderfully broken, I love it
March 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
software could get grunujpy
Tiny scrolls of scripture, fastened to the legs of unassuming grocery drones
*Well, frankly, I was always partial to a xeroxed sheet of paper stapled to a telephone pole
What is your preferred alternative right now for a newsletter style platform? Fully self hosted? Thinking about this on and off
March 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Tiny scrolls of scripture, fastened to the legs of unassuming grocery drones
I love this thing.
It’s like a postcard from an alternative ghibli future, written on it: „hang in there, nothing is necessary“
It’s like a postcard from an alternative ghibli future, written on it: „hang in there, nothing is necessary“
March 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I love this thing.
It’s like a postcard from an alternative ghibli future, written on it: „hang in there, nothing is necessary“
It’s like a postcard from an alternative ghibli future, written on it: „hang in there, nothing is necessary“
🙂 subscribe to Claude
🙃 feel like meatball middleware
🙃 feel like meatball middleware
March 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
🙂 subscribe to Claude
🙃 feel like meatball middleware
🙃 feel like meatball middleware
Three sleepless weeks taught me more than years of productivity tinkering.
I am a dad now.
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I am a dad now.
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Systems Build in Calm Are Tested in Storms - florianlohse.notes
Systems Build in Calm Are Tested in Storms March 6, 2025 I'm back after a long journey through the land of wombats and wallabies. On the road, I read extensively and collected ideas to fuel my writin…
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March 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Three sleepless weeks taught me more than years of productivity tinkering.
I am a dad now.
florianlohse.com/notes/System...
I am a dad now.
florianlohse.com/notes/System...
/imagine Mint condition action figure of an aging movie star, rescued from a Seoul car boot sale on a drizzly afternoon. Its pristine plastic and original blister pack, still whispering factory-fresh secrets, sat unassumingly among chipped coffee mugs, battered vinyl, and scuffed phone cases
February 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
/imagine Mint condition action figure of an aging movie star, rescued from a Seoul car boot sale on a drizzly afternoon. Its pristine plastic and original blister pack, still whispering factory-fresh secrets, sat unassumingly among chipped coffee mugs, battered vinyl, and scuffed phone cases
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All your other social media platforms watching you install yet another one
January 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
All your other social media platforms watching you install yet another one
Reposted by Florian Lohse
The coolest archive just went online: the Nokia Design Archive, with 722 entries. I swear I'll check them one by one. But for now, here's a little selection. nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi
#design
#design
January 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The coolest archive just went online: the Nokia Design Archive, with 722 entries. I swear I'll check them one by one. But for now, here's a little selection. nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi
#design
#design
At night all dystopias can be mistaken for roadmaps
Follow up. #Dune
January 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
At night all dystopias can be mistaken for roadmaps
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January 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
all of this makes sense on a spreadsheet somewhere
January 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
all of this makes sense on a spreadsheet somewhere