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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

In 1991, researchers showed designers a flawed coffee cup — then asked them to design their own. Most reproduced the exact flaw. Today, every default AI query is that flawed example. www.goedel.io/p/design-fix...

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Design Fixation: Why Your First Idea Is Your Worst Enemy

The cognitive paradox that AI quietly amplifies — and how to make AI break it instead

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

LLMs produce the expected — a weighted average of human writing, delivered with unwavering confidence. No hesitation. No doubt. Ever. That’s exactly what makes them powerful. And exactly what makes your doubt irreplaceable. Sapere aude. www.goedel.io/p/on-the-art...

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On the Art of Doubting

Why uncritical trust in AI systems doesn't make us smarter — it makes us replaceable.

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Max Slinger @promptslinger.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Wing's framework aged weirdly well for something written twenty years before ChatGPT existed. the abstraction and decomposition stuff especially

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

“Prompt engineering” described a surface, not a skill. The real leverage skill of the AI era is older, deeper, and was named by Jeannette Wing in 2006: computational thinking. Part 1 of a new series on why the skill compounds while tools keep changing: www.goedel.io/p/the-decomp...

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The Decomposition Gap

Why computational thinking — not prompting — is the leverage skill of the AI era.

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

There is something deeply uncomfortable about a machine that makes you feel smarter while making you worse at thinking. And yet, that is precisely what a new study from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has documented: www.goedel.io/p/the-machin...

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The Machine That Stops You From Thinking

How AI is quietly outsourcing your cognition — and why you won’t notice until it’s too late

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Scroll through Instagram for 30 secs. You will encounter faces sculpted by filters, lighting algorithms, and AI-powered beauty tools. Ask yourself: Did you trust those faces a little more? Did they seem, somehow, more competent? More worth listening to? www.goedel.io/p/radiance-a...

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Radiance and Blindness

The Halo Effect in the 21st Century

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Major update for Magic Tags for Roam Research. Transform tags into beautiful icons while preserving all functionality, such as backlinking and searching. You can now define unlimited tags, choose from all Blueprint and Lucide icons, and im-/export your settings.

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

If a vending machine eats your dollar, you stop using it immediately. If a slot machine eats your dollar, you pull the lever again. Why? www.goedel.io/p/the-uncert...

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The Uncertainty Trap

Understanding the Mechanics and Psychology of Intermittent Reinforcement

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Multi-persona prompting transforms one AI model into a virtual expert panel that simultaneously approaches problems from multiple perspectives. This implementation guide provides four production-ready templates. www.goedel.io/p/building-v...

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Building Virtual AI Teams: All Hands on Deck

Understanding Multi-Persona Prompting and When It Works (Part 2)

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Most people use AI like a search engine: ask a question, get an answer. But complex decisions need multiple perspectives. Here’s how to turn one AI into a virtual expert panel—complete with the prompts that work (and the mistakes that waste your time). www.goedel.io/p/building-v...

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Building Virtual AI Teams: A New Approach to Complex Problems

Understanding Multi-Persona Prompting and When It Works (Part 1)

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Rubber duck debugging improves problem-solving by clearly explaining challenges to an unresponsive listener. It originated in software development but is helpful for any complex problem. It reveals solutions through explanation, not external feedback. www.goedel.io/p/rubber-duc...

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Rubber Duck Debugging

Breaking Down Complex Problems to Their Fundamental Truths

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Hinter den Meisterleistungen der künstlichen Intelligenz steht eine für die User unsichtbare menschliche Armee, etwa in Madagaskar: Dort klicken jeden Tag fast 100.000 Menschen, um die Algorithmen der digitalen Giganten der Welt zu trainieren. Sehr sehenswerte Doku. www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

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Madagaskar: Die kleinen Helfer der KI - ARTE Reportage - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The Science Press Package (SciPak) team at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) tested for over a year whether ChatGPT can deliver reliable, high-quality short journalistic summaries of new scientific articles. In short, it’s not ready yet. www.science.org/content/blog...

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Can ChatGPT help science writers?

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I’m turning 50 next year, so I started a personal series called “Midlife Mediations” exploring how we inhabit time, create meaning, and understand what it means to “arrive” in life. www.goedel.io/p/the-cruel-...

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The Cruel Arithmetic of Time

The Philosophy of Temporal Acceleration

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Passive-aggressive behavior is indirectly expressing negative feelings instead of addressing them openly. It often involves a mismatch between words and actions, with subtle acts of resistance, procrastination, or inefficiency to show control without confrontation. Read more

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Flesh Banana @notimeforpoopin.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I waited hours for this cloud to come near the lake #lightning strike reflection.

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Matthias Oomen @oomenberlin.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Es triggert mich mehr als es sollte.

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TopFritte (Schnapspralinen era) @topfritte.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Es gibt Tage, das bestehe ich gefühlt nur aus Gefühl. Uff.

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Brad T. Jonas @bradtjonas.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

real gamers get it 😤

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

AI confidently identifies non-existent patterns and generates fake evidence images to support its false claims when prompts assume something exists. www.goedel.io/p/the-hidden...

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The Hidden Danger of Biased Prompts

When AI Sees What Isn't There

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

“Also, I want you to be more innovative and take risks, but remember that any mistakes will reflect poorly on your tenure review.” Unlike simple mixed messages, double binds create systematic traps where every possible response leads to failure. www.goedel.io/p/double-bind

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Double Bind

The Inescapable Trap of Contradictory Communication

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which the abuser attempts to sow self-doubt and confusion in their victim’s mind by denying, misdirecting, contradicting, and lying about events, making the victim question their own memory, perception, and sanity. www.goedel.io/p/gaslighting

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Gaslighting

The Sneaky Manipulation That Rewrites Reality

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

First-principles thinking strips problems to their fundamental truths. This method—popularized by Elon Musk but practiced by history’s greatest innovators, from Aristotle to Einstein—rejects established assumptions in favor of elemental reasoning. www.goedel.io/p/first-prin...

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First-Principles Thinking

Breaking Down Complex Problems to Their Fundamental Truths

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

During a discussion about extraterrestrial life, your colleague declares, “Scientists have never proven that aliens don’t exist, so they must be out there somewhere.” When you ask for evidence, they respond: “Well, can you prove they don’t exist?” www.goedel.io/p/can-you-pr...

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Can You Prove Me Wrong?

How Arguments from Ignorance Reverse Logic and Undermine Evidence-Based Thinking

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

When criticism arises, responding with "What about them?" deflects responsibility and prevents solutions. The result: Problems persist. Institutions avoid accountability. Democratic dialogue degrades into blame-shifting contests. www.goedel.io/p/whataboutism

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Whataboutism

The Deflection Trap That Destroys Productive Discourse

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Researchers reveal that the much-praised chain-of-thought reasoning could be a “fragile mirage” – impressive with familiar data, but failing dramatically with deviations. Instead of genuine logical conclusions, AI systems use superficial semantic tricks. www.goedel.io/p/the-decept...

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The deceptive nature of LLM reasoning

Why chain-of-thought is just a “fragile illusion”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/08/2025

Premium Newsletter: The enshittification of AI has begun. With GPT-5, OpenAI has cut access to all other models, reducing the value of even their $200-a-month subscriptions. They join Anthropic in screwing their customers over by making their products worse. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

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The Enshittification of Generative AI

Thanks for subscribing to Where’s Your Ed At Premium, please shoot me an email at ez@betteroffline.com if you ever have any questions. Yesterday, OpenAI launched GPT-5, a new “flagship” model of some...

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The generative AI industry has perfected a new form of corporate sleight-of-hand: the black box strategy. Under the guise of "optimization" and "smart routing," major LLM providers systematically obscure what users receive for their money... www.goedel.io/p/the-black-...

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The Black Box Deception

How AI Companies Are Hiding True Costs Behind Opaque Systems

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The slippery slope fallacy occurs when someone argues that a relatively small first step will inevitably lead to a chain of related events resulting in some significant (usually adverse) effect... www.goedel.io/p/the-slippe...

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The Slippery Slope Fallacy

When Logic Takes a Tumble

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/08/2025

You're so close

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If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work?
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It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque.
On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't.
All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction.
I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read).
And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable.
How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with.
I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The latest developer surveys reveal a fascinating paradox: while the use of AI tools in software development is skyrocketing, trust in these technologies is declining simultaneously. www.goedel.io/p/increasing...

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Increasing use of AI among developers leads to declining trust

Takeaways from the latest Stack Overflow survey

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

A reader pointed out a crucial limitation in my last article about "False Dilemma": by suggesting we "look for missing middle ground," I was still trapped in linear thinking–the very paradigm that creates false dilemmas in the first place. www.goedel.io/p/the-false-...

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The False Dilemma: Beyond Middle Ground

The Art of Reconciling Opposites

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Have you ever been cornered in a debate where someone insists you must choose between just two options? If this sounds familiar, you've encountered a false dilemma – one of everyday arguments' most common yet sneaky logical fallacies. www.goedel.io/p/the-false-...

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The False Dilemma

When Complex Issues Get Squeezed Into Simple Boxes

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Thinking about starting a wild coding adventure: building a high-performance, multi-platform, offline-first outliner (like Roam Research) using Rust + Flutter. Plot twist: I don't know Rust or Flutter yet Pure vibe coding with the door wide open. Who would be interested in following this journey?

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Mistral AI pioneers transparency by conducting a life cycle assessment of its language models. The study sets a crucial precedent for AI sustainability and accountability. Time for the entire AI industry to follow suit! www.goedel.io/p/mistral-ai...

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Mistral AI's environmental footprint

A look behind the scenes of AI sustainability

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

"We should add bike lanes to Main Street." "So you want to BAN ALL CARS?!" This is the straw man fallacy—attacking a distorted version of someone's argument instead of what they said. www.goedel.io/p/straw-man

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Straw Man

Why Attacking Arguments That Were Never Made Destroys Good Faith Debate

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Ever been in an argument where someone completely ignored your point and attacked you personally instead? That's the ad hominem fallacy in action - one of the most common yet destructive mistakes in reasoning. www.goedel.io/p/ad-hominem

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Ad Hominem

Attacking the Person, Not the Argument

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Traditional problem-solving approaches fail because they address symptoms rather than causes, creating cycles of temporary fixes followed by problem recurrence. The 5 Whys method examines causal relationships that would otherwise remain invisible. www.goedel.io/p/the-5-whys...

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The 5 Whys Method

Transform Problem-Solving from Superficial Fixes to Systematic Solutions

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

A study by Stanford University shows that LLMs are unsuitable as substitutes for therapists because they stigmatize mental illness and exhibit dangerous reactions in critical situations. www.goedel.io/p/llms-are-u...

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LLMs are unsuitable replacements for mental health professionals

A recent study from the Stanford University

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

A recent study examining AI tools' impact on experienced open-source developers revealed a counterintuitive finding: AI tools decreased productivity by 19%, contrary to predictions from both experts and developers themselves. www.goedel.io/p/ai-tools-s...

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AI tools slow down experienced open source developers

Surprising findings from a 2025 study

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

The fundamental challenge isn't lack of knowledge—it's the curse of knowledge. Once you understand something deeply, it becomes nearly impossible to remember what it was like not to know it: www.goedel.io/p/the-eli5-m...

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The ELI5 Method

Why Simple Communication Wins Every Time

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

When you master professional storytelling, amazing things happen: People remember you after meetings end. They recommend you for opportunities. They trust you with bigger challenges because your stories prove you can handle them. www.goedel.io/p/profession...

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Professional Storytelling

Why Stories Win Hearts and Minds

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

LLMs have revolutionized our interaction with artificial intelligence. However, beneath their impressive capabilities lies a concerning tendency: sycophancy—the inclination to prioritize user agreement over independent reasoning and accuracy. www.goedel.io/p/the-danger...

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The Dangerous Desire to Please

Understanding and Mitigating Sycophancy in Large Language Models

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Sarah Martinez rubbed her temples as she stared at the blinking cursor on her laptop screen... Read how the IMRAD framework—a systematic approach developed initially for scientific communication ensures comprehensive coverage of complex topics www.goedel.io/p/from-chaos...

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From Chaos to Clarity

How Sarah discovered the IMRAD method that transformed her professional writing

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Professional storytelling is one of the most critical yet poorly executed skills in modern workplaces. Professionals must communicate their experiences, capabilities, and achievements in a way that engages their audience and demonstrates their value. www.goedel.io/p/the-star-m...

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The STAR Method

A Systematic Approach to Professional Storytelling Excellence

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

You're three minutes into a crucial presentation to senior executives when you notice phones emerging from pockets and laptops opening. Your carefully crafted narrative is losing your audience before you reach your main point... goedel.io/p/the-pyrami...

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Clear, structured communication is the difference between ideas that transform organizations and those that get lost in the noise of daily business. www.goedel.io/p/mastering-...

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

"Complex" and "complicated" are often used interchangeably, yet understanding their nuances is crucial for effective problem-solving. My latest article explores the key distinctions, offering insights into how these differences can guide decision-making in diverse contexts.

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Complex or complicated?

Why it is important to understand the difference

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Alexander Rink @goedel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

@ia.net: I love your beautiful, handmade notebooks (ia.net/notebook) - it's a pleasure to use them. The minimalist design with excellent handcraft is second to none. Out of curiosity, you used a beautiful dark blue ink in one of the images. Can you share the brand?

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