Summary

Simon Späti reflects on 11 years of public writing, framing it as both a passion and the foundation of a business he built around technical writing services. He describes the recurring emotional arc of every piece: initial excitement, next-day doubt, grinding revision, and eventual satisfaction. The post documents his evolving writing workflow across multiple time periods, from early practices to a mature 2025 process involving Obsidian, a distraction-free offline typewriter device, Second Brain systems, and selective AI assistance. His core argument is that writing is not a scheduled task but an entire lifestyle of observation, curiosity, and emotional oscillation. The post doubles as an introduction to his new show, 'Show Your Workflow.'

Key Insight

Writing is not a producible output but a lifestyle of observation and emotional investment, and the rollercoaster of doubt and revision is not a sign of failure but the actual craft itself.

Spicy Quotes (click to share)

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  Writing really is an emotional rollercoaster, and it's been that way with all the articles I have written.

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  It's not something you just sit down and do for 5 hours... It's essentially your life. You observe, you find things to write about, you get angry, you find a cool hack, you create a story.

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  By just adding a `# Take Out` chapter at the end of each article, it tricks my brain into thinking: 'it's not deleted', 'I can get it back'.

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  Laughter is the sound of comprehension. It's when you get an idea, when it clicks or you make a connection.

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  Writing is hard. It's easy to start, hard to finish.

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  The longer the wait, the more insightful that note will get.

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  Writing is so painful when you write about something you do not care about and so blissful when you write with your Principles aligned.

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  The reader will not mind if you spend one day or three months on an article; he appreciates it if the reader flow is good and he can learn.

Tone

reflective, personal, earnest