Patrick Dorfer is a product designer at Dynatrace with a passion for cutting through the noise and building what matters.
Before that, he worked across IoT and consultancy for clients like Electrolux and Audi, having started out as a chef before moving into tech.
Recent work
Writing
- Strength is built outsideMy answer isn't about quitting screens or escaping to a cabin. It's about being active. Specifically, doing it outside. That is what pulls me back into my body, into focus, and (counterintuitively) into better work.
- Saving everything is the new procrastinationAI is making more people hoarders, not better thinkers. The agent only works if the funnel underneath it does.
- Flow state in the world of AIWe don't lose focus. We give it away, two seconds at a time. AI changes the shape of the day, not the rules of flow.
- Brains aren't filing cabinets, but most knowledge systems are.A growing number of people are building their own personal AI systems. Not chatbots. Operating layers — skills, pipelines, memory, specialist agents that compound over time.
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