https://taschler.net/journalI study computer science at TU Wien and start businesses. One is already running and more are on the way. Essays on building, rhythm and perspective.enhttps://taschler.net/updates/the-bigger-stephttps://taschler.net/updates/the-bigger-stepOne of them has left the drawing board.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTPersonal note<p>One of the things I started is now a real business. I run it, and I’m building it to last. The name and details stay private for now.</p>https://taschler.net/updates/a-place-to-follow-the-workhttps://taschler.net/updates/a-place-to-follow-the-workIdeas out of curiosity, ventures with momentum and the bigger step I’m working towards.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTPersonal note<h2 id="different-reasons-to-keep-going">Different reasons to keep going</h2> <p>I have several things in motion. Some are there simply because I’m interested. Others already have momentum, and I want to see how much further I can take them.</p> <p>I like that there is room for both. An interest doesn’t need a plan to deserve my attention. A project with promise deserves the work that could turn it into something bigger.</p> <h2 id="the-next-step">The next step</h2> <p>I feel close to a bigger step, and I’m putting the work into getting there.</p> <p>The names and details stay private for now.</p>https://taschler.net/journal/from-possible-to-realhttps://taschler.net/journal/from-possible-to-realAn idea is easy until it has a job to do. Then it gets interesting.Building<h2 id="give-the-idea-a-job">Give the idea a job</h2> <p>Some of my projects exist because an idea wouldn’t leave me alone. Others exist because they could become something bigger. One already has.</p> <p>A project gives an idea a job. Who should it make things easier for, and what do they need to understand first? Answering that well is the actual work.</p> <p>An idea can sound convincing long before it works. The words are clear, but the experience isn’t. That gap is what I look for, usually a step that asks too much of someone.</p> <h2 id="make-the-next-version-specific">Make the next version specific</h2> <p>The next useful version beats the perfect description. With a version, someone can try for themselves whether the idea works.</p> <p>So every change has to leave something better than it was yesterday, even if it is only a clearer explanation. The steps stay small and concrete, however big the thing behind them.</p> <p>Computer science at TU Wien tells me how something can be built. What I enjoy most is deciding what is worth building and making it easy for others to understand.</p>https://taschler.net/journal/the-days-that-make-roomhttps://taschler.net/journal/the-days-that-make-roomWhy early starts, training and the same structure every week are the opposite of boring.Rhythm<h2 id="make-some-decisions-once">Make some decisions once</h2> <p>Training, work and study follow a plan I rarely renegotiate. Most of it is decided before the day begins.</p> <p>A routine settles decisions in advance. When the small things are already decided, I can concentrate on the work and what comes next.</p> <p>Training belongs in that structure. I don’t treat it as a reward for finished work, because it is what makes the work possible.</p> <h2 id="know-what-is-worth-repeating">Know what is worth repeating</h2> <p>With every routine I want to know what it is meant to help me do.</p> <p>Repetition only helps when it serves something I care about. A structure can outlive its purpose. Discipline, for me, includes noticing that and changing it.</p>https://taschler.net/journal/an-unfamiliar-anglehttps://taschler.net/journal/an-unfamiliar-angleI can be certain about my own direction and still be interested in someone else’s.Perspective<h2 id="what-makes-sense-to-them">What makes sense to them?</h2> <p>Before I argue with a choice, I want to know why it made sense to the person who made it. Someone might be protecting something, working around a constraint or using a word differently. I want to understand that reasoning before I assume I know what they mean.</p> <p>That matters in conversations. It matters even more when I build something another person will use. I always know more about my own project than they do, and that is exactly the problem.</p> <h2 id="bring-it-into-the-details">Bring it into the details</h2> <p>What feels obvious to me may be exactly where someone else needs an explanation.</p> <p>So I watch for things like a label that only makes sense once you know the idea. Those small details decide whether someone can use the thing at all.</p>https://taschler.net/journal/the-horizon-changes-the-scalehttps://taschler.net/journal/the-horizon-changes-the-scaleOn travel, and why the ordinary things are the ones worth noticing.Elsewhere<h2 id="far-from-home">Far from home</h2> <p>Every trip has its big sights, and they are easy to remember. The small things stay with me longer.</p> <p>I’m curious about what feels ordinary somewhere else, like how fast a place moves or what everyone there is simply expected to know. Nobody who lives there would notice those things.</p> <p>My own routines feel natural because they are familiar. Seeing a different arrangement can show me that something I treated as fixed was really a choice.</p> <h2 id="bring-a-question-home">Bring a question home</h2> <p>I come home with observations as well as photographs, and what I most want to know is why a place felt different.</p>https://taschler.net/journal/what-keeps-me-interested-in-aihttps://taschler.net/journal/what-keeps-me-interested-in-aiLess about what it can do than about the moment a familiar task suddenly works differently.AI<h2 id="the-possibility">The possibility</h2> <p>AI is part of how I work through ideas and build things every day. I use it, question it and try to work out where it is good.</p> <p>What holds my attention is the moment a familiar task suddenly works differently, because there is a new way to approach a problem or build a tool. Then I ask myself what I had only been doing out of habit.</p> <h2 id="the-real-question">The real question</h2> <p>The interesting question is never what it can do, but what it is good for. I want to understand how it could help someone and where human judgement is still needed.</p> <p>Computer science covers the technical part. Whether the result is any good, I can only judge once I understand the people using it.</p>