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In userPromptKeywords.ts, the company with the world’s most advanced language model was detecting user frustration with: /\b(wtf|shit|fuck|horrible|aw
No matter how rapidly technology changes, I am coalescing around some core beliefs: Things that are worth doing are worth doing well. Things that are
I love designing and building things for the web, but I’m mourning an industry that does not share the ideals I once thought it did. I understand why
Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day? - Shannon Odell
AMPK enhances your metabolism is by stimulating the creation of more mitochondria, a process called mitochondrial biogenesis. Having more mitochondria
The reason rapamycin has so many diverse applications is thanks to a property that Sehgal had observed, but never explored, which is that it tends to
A helpful phrase to remember when dealing with distractions of any kind is, let it come, let it be, let it go. Don’t try to suppress it, just let it c
When someone with a regimented practice that’s gone stale comes to me for advice, one suggestion I almost always give is, “see if you can just do noth
In my own experience, for example, I long noticed I was triggered by people who were loud and overly expressive. I eventually realized that this was b
Die intensive Bindung verliert heute zunehmend an Bedeutung. Sie ist vor allem unproduktiv, denn allein schwache Bindungen beschleunigen Konsum und Ko
Es war einer von diesen Tagen, wie sie im Leben nicht sehr oft vorkommen. Ich konnte mich noch erinnern, wie ich als Kind das erste Mal merkte, dass i
Plötzlich wurde ihm bewusst, was er seit einiger Zeit immer öfter fühlte: Er war in seinem Leben an einem besonderen Punkt angelangt. Nachdenklich hol
There is no reason the world must stay this way, the internet has already rebirthed some informal skill transfer that once existed. This constitutes a
The kids are joining running clubs, buying “dumb” phones, woodworking, rocking Walkmans, joining supper clubs, etc because their lives have been swall
Was dem Aktionär gegeben wird, wurde dem Arbeiter zuvor gestohlen. Friedrich Engels
You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The w
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside i
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things. – Joan Rivers

One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s
Over the years, and especially through my time growing Behance, I have had the opportunity to follow and work with all kinds of designers from around
Interfaces used to be the solution. “There’s an app for that” was music to our ears.But now interfaces are overused. They’re getting in the way. Inste
Across all creative fields, what isn’t there is just as important as what is there. In fashion, Coco Chanel advised, “Before you leave the house, look
Wir sind so oft nicht wirklich präsent, weil wir andere Dinge im Kopf haben. Wenn unsere Kinder uns eine Frage stellen und wir gar nicht so richtig zu
Most parents love their children, and it would seem terrible to admit that you would be better off if someone you loved didn’t exist. More than that,
When you ask people about their life’s meaning and purpose, parents say that their lives have more meaning than those of nonparents. A study by the so
Winnicott’s crucial insight was that the parents’ agony was coming from a particular place: excessive hope. Their despair was a consequence of a cruel
So how do we do it? Let’s imagine that we want to come up with 20 ideas for marketing slogans for a new mail-order cheese shop. The AI can generate th
I can explore Aristotle, Kant, and Wittgenstein in dialogue with AI. We learn far more through dialogue than we do by monologue. The same goes for sim
But there are already signs that AI can help. Research has successfully demonstrated that it is possible to correctly determine the most promising dir
Here's a simple thing you can do when traveling to countries where they don't speak the language. For many years, I gratefully used Google Translate t
Almost everything that holds meaning, weight, and gravity, cannot be reached by a shortcut, by sheer force alone. But by acceptance. Acceptance that w
There are necessary developmental thresholds someone has to pass through, and there's no real salve or proxy for it. You can give advice from a vantag
you need to accumulate your own mistakes for someone to be able to give you personalized, specific advice. And you need to put in the reps to accumula
Experience Is Incompressible
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. – Jean-Luc Godard
you need to accumulate your own mistakes for someone to be able to give you personalized, specific advice. And you need to put in the reps to accumula
But it’s only when you’ve been doing something for a long time that you realize the only advice that matters is to do more of the thing.
The key to working with your timid scribe is understanding its strengths and limitations. My experience with AI so far has shown me that AI is brillia
How to Keep Your Writing Weird in the Age of AI
I felt the same pride I used to feel from writing elegant code, maybe more. Because I wasn't proud of how it worked—I was proud that it worked. Real p
Coding is now accessible to anyone who can think clearly. Designers who understand systems. Teachers who grasp how people learn. Writers who structure
Ich konnte mir nicht vorstellen, dass ich irgendwann das Leben nicht mehr ein wenig wie ein Spiel ansehen wollte. Nicht mehr neugierig sein würde. Kei
Auf meiner Seite roch es unter der Kuppel der Linden, die über den Zaun des Friedhofs wuchsen, durchsichtig süß. Und von den Kastanien am Straßenrand
Vielleicht waren das hier die einzigen Stunden mit Beate, die es je geben würde. Aber selbst dann war eines schon klar: Es hatte sich bereits gelohnt.
Schön, in einer Sommernacht durch so einen Duft zu fahren. Weil es so ein plötzliches Gefühl von Jetzt war. Jetzt war Sommer. Er würde vorbeigehen, ab
Switch from team “I will one day write something good” to team “I have no choice but to write a piece of shit” and then take off your “bad writer” hat
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
Es war ja nicht so, als könnte ich die Schule nicht leiden. Ich ging sogar ganz gerne hin. Wegen der Leute. Was also gewissermaßen erklärte, wofür ich
Anxiety is the subtle and pervasive destroyer of our happiness. It depends upon thoughts of past and future. It cannot exist in the present.
Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.
Wir sind so oft nicht wirklich präsent, weil wir andere Dinge im Kopf haben. Wenn unsere Kinder uns eine Frage stellen und wir gar nicht so richtig zu
If you let go a little, you will find a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will find a lot of peace. If you let go absolutely, you will find absol
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.
We may meditate in hopes that it will lower our stress and anxiety in everyday life, but the practice of meditation is actually about learning to embr
Curiosity is voracious–the more you know the more you want to know; the more connections you make between the different bits of knowledge; the more id
Like many other artists, I collect ideas. And every morning at 10am, I get a random text message containing an idea that I’ve saved in the past. Ambie
My collecting took a more formal basis once I figured out content management systems, or figuring out ways to structure my collecting on the web. It s

Try writing about why the work is important, or spend some time reflecting on times in the past where you’ve felt most connected to it.
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous 'I don’t know.' Wisława Szymborska
Obviously, collaborations can work with idea generation too, but I think the most important part of idea generation is getting ideas yourself, then ta

The issue is that in order to learn to think critically, problem-solve, understand abstract concepts, reason through novel problems, and evaluate the
But there are already signs that AI can help. Research has successfully demonstrated that it is possible to correctly determine the most promising dir
It may be that working with AI is itself a form of expertise. It is possible that some people are just really good at it. They can adopt Cyborg practi

Neurowissenschaftler haben mittlerweile gezeigt, dass bei chronischen Prokrastinierern tatsächlich eine veränderte Hirnaktivität im präfrontalen Korte
Der Psychologe und Forscher Timothy Pychyl, inzwischen im Ruhestand, beschreibt Prokrastination als "emotion-focused coping": Indem wir Aufgaben aufsc
Dieser Text hätte vor knapp zwei Jahren erscheinen sollen. Zeit genug hatte ich, aber das ist das Problem mit genug Zeit: Man hat sie auch noch am näc
Prokrastination: Dieser Text Hätte Vor Knapp Zwei Jahren Erscheinen Sollen | ZEIT ONLINE
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope: “Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things. – Joan Rivers
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So
Don’t become overprotective of your main notes to the point where you stop making them. A main note’s contents can be as simple as an idea and a link
My Perfect PKM / Note-Taking App Native Mac and mobile UI/UX and local first principle of @craftdocsapp Nested tags UX of @BearNotesApp Textbundle imp
At 47 years old, I still wrestle with these questions. I know people who never care about the things I obsess over—like whether to use Notion, Obsidia
Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will
Regardless of whether or not we’re formally making art, we are all living as artists. We perceive, filter, and collect data, then curate an experience
Data collection is inherently creative. Depending on the data you choose to collect from the world, you can begin to see the world from a different pe
People will pay for the convenience of not poring through internet sludge all day and having someone clarify what they need to know.”
Data collection is inherently creative. Depending on the data you choose to collect from the world, you can begin to see the world from a different pe
Regardless of whether or not we’re formally making art, we are all living as artists. We perceive, filter, and collect data, then curate an experience
Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will
People will pay for the convenience of not poring through internet sludge all day and having someone clarify what they need to know.”
If a designer shows you work in progress, it’s a great sign. It means they’ve moved beyond a fear that all you’ll see is the broken stuff to a willing
Look, you can get a website for $500. You can also get a website for $70 million. The former is gonna have less stuff on it than the latter. (Neither
Successful design projects need equal participation from the client and the designer. Yet the design process remains a mystery to the people who buy i
The single biggest improvement is to flip that around and just show the final result. I understand why designers present their process. They’ve done a
We all navigate the strange territory between science and spirituality in our own way. The Woo Spectrum offers a map for this journey – not to judge w
Based on both personal experience and scientific evidence, I’m convinced about practices that might be considered “woo” such as plant medicine, breath
Conversations can become binary and polarized when we lack language to describe our beliefs. The Woo Spectrum helps us understand and describe our rel
Well, the Buddha taught that this misconception is actually the primary cause of our suffering, and keeps us from finding lasting contentment. He laid
So we can say that the practice of Vipassana is to really look. To notice that much of our experience is a self-imposed limiting construct, and that s
You see, the Buddha claimed we’re are all deluded, that we don’t experience reality as it really is. Modern science backs this up, with a lot of studi
Tantra vs Vipassana
EN 301549 geht über WCAG hinaus 💡 Die EN 301549 ist die Norm zum Nachweis der Konformität mit dem BFSG und beinhaltet die WCAG, geht aber in ihren An
Durchsetzung des BFSG 🛂 Behörden haben die Aufgabe, anlassbezogen zu prüfen, also wenn sich jemand beschwert. 🧐 Sie prüfen aber auch ohne Anlass, sti
Keine Übergangsfrist für Websites im BFSG 🤔 Das Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG) enthält Grauzonen hinsichtlich der Anwendung auf Websites. 📌 F
Konformität mit dem BFSG durch harmonisierte Normen 📌 Das BFSG formuliert Barrierefreiheitsanforderungen allgemein (wahrnehmbar, bedienbar, robust) o
Usability Issues Caused by Infinite Scrolling Despite the benefits discussed above, infinite scrolling does have several drawbacks, which can impair t
Even the guy who invented the infinite scroll later regretted it. These interfaces are not designed to help you—swiping and scrolling are rarely the b
Severe problems start showing up when we introduce overlays, anchor links, image galleries, and dynamic views into our interfaces. For example, if a u
Disabling buttons can cause more problems for users than benefits. Missing feedback When you click a disabled button, nothing happens. The button does
When you use the <object> element, you can provide content between its opening and closing tags to be used as a fallback for when the linked image doe
Design for Color Blindness Things To Keep In Mind ✅ Red-/green deficiencies are more common in men. ✅ Use blue if you want users to perceive color as
Disabling buttons can cause more problems for users than benefits. Missing feedback When you click a disabled button, nothing happens. The button does
When you're excited or stressed, the aperture of your visual window shrinks. When you're relaxed, the aperture of your vision expands.
A Slow Breathing Excercise Follow these steps, taken from Kung-Fu & Wim Hof certified instructor Kitaru Waga : Find a comfortable position where you
When you're excited or stressed, the aperture of your visual window shrinks. When you're relaxed, the aperture of your vision expands.
To activate the sympathetic nervous system: narrow your vision. Go into “Portrait Mode” and let everything else fall into the background. To activate
While useful, the lists of goals, obstacles, skills, and mastery provided above can obscure just how simple the underlying process really is: intentio
Increasing the power of consciousness isn’t a mysterious process. It’s a lot like weight training. You simply do exercises where you practice sustaini
Repeating simple tasks with a clear intention can reprogram unconscious mental processes. This can completely transform who you are as a person.
When you truly see yourself as a healthy person, your habits will reflect this. You’ll choose the side salad over fries without even having to think a
Cheating was already common in schools. One study of eleven years of college courses found that when students did their homework in 2008, it improved
Imagine introducing high-quality AI tutors into the flipped classroom model. These AI-powered systems have the potential to significantly enhance the
Some assignments ask students to “cheat” by having the AI create essays, which they then critique—a sneaky way of getting students to think hard about
For example, we know that in-class lectures are not the most effective way to teach and that topics need to be interwoven together in order for studen
Truly doing justice to the astonishing gift of a few thousand weeks isn’t a matter of resolving to ‘do something remarkable’ with them. In fact, it en
Cosmic insignificance therapy is an invitation to face the truth about your irrelevance in the grand scheme of things. To embrace it, to whatever exte
Do not demand to be appreciated, but let your satisfaction be the pleasure of others . – The Yoga of Eating by Charles Eisenstein
The Little Chap Who Follows Me A careful man I want to be — a little fellow follows me. I do not dare to go astray, for fear he’ll go the self-same wa

Perhaps most of all, self grows through self-importance; its antidote is healthy humility. Being humble means being natural and unassuming, not being
If you and I were to design a chair together, we’d have to consider some factors from the get-go. Of course, we’d consider the seat’s size, the height
Design isn’t magic and it isn’t art. It’s a craft. Design solves a problem within a set of given constraints. We’ll talk about why those constraints m
A well-designed world is a better world. I love knowing that a thoughtful piece of user interface makes someone’s life go a bit easier, whether it’s d
If the project is big enough, you may have a couple of payments due at agreed-upon milestones, with a final payment on completion. I advise designers
This tempo and cadence is crucial for effective leadership. Even though you may not think that people want it, and even if people themselves think the
When you are asking people to do something, lead with a recommendation of when it should be done by. Be explicit about this, but open to negotiation.
Deadlines really help human beings get things done. The only way that I've written books is because I set myself a challenging, but not impossible, sc
Parkinson's Law: It's Real, So Use It
Goals are tools to shape who you become, and if you don't set sufficiently ambitious ones, you're unlikely to grow.
Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset 📝 Sari Azout discusses the importance of having a growth mindset. 📌 When she experiences setbacks, like an email cam
Deadlines really help human beings get things done. The only way that I've written books is because I set myself a challenging, but not impossible, sc
Carrying out five random acts of kindness a week dramatically improves your happiness.
There is nothing more satisfying than being loved for who you are and nothing more painful than being loved for who you’re not but pretending to be.
“We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely t
The attachment we have to an individual can supersede an overall decrease in our quality of life, and so the love we usually have toward our children
With nondual recognition, this is not the case. You can directly observe and explicitly think about the fact that you don't feel like a self and don't
My sense, based on personal experience and observing others, is that you taking to the practice depends on your ability to catch a glimpse of non-dual
Introductions to non-duality I still think that one of the best introductions to non-duality in general is the conversation series Angelo had on ZDogg
One of the most widely respected non-dual teachers today is Adyashanti, who originally studied Zen formally but began to teach more direct path style
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. – C. G. Jung
If life is short, we should expect its shortness to take us by surprise. And that is just what tends to happen. You take things for granted, and then
A wise man said: Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates. At the first gate, ask yourself, “Is it true?” At the second gate ask, “Is
There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all. —PETER DRUCKER
Optimize for legacy, not empire. Empires die because they’re alone, legacies live because they involve others. -OH, on building teams and brand commu
After all, degrowth isn’t just about the economy. It’s about culture. For example, you might try swapping or trading your future fashion rather than f
I don’t know if people develop such a deep connection to the things they buy these days. Many people have a strong desire to possess the latest thing,
I have a theory that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale. I once wrote that every en
Books that make you forget to get off at your station. Books that make you go to sleep way too late. Books you just can't put down.
I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full s
This rant via Shalom Auslander I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by
Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an ar
Regaining focusThe main thing I realized recently is how lost my mind has become. I stopped meditating, I stopped reading books, and I'm consuming an
Schedule a worry hour → let it all out, and be done with it Focus on what you can control → stoics knew Trust your future self → it will handle shit –
Reframe non-productive time. One of the reasons the exploration phase of the work is low value is that most of it doesn’t look like work. It’s lots of
Let yourself fall. Learn to observe snakes. Plant impossible gardens. Let someone dangerous in for tea. Make small Signs that say “yes” and spread the
Work-Life Balance 📝 Chris Pedregal prioritizes being a good dad, partner, and CEO. 😩 He believes he can only excel at two out of the three roles at an
At first I felt overwhelmed and anxious about the situation. I started to feel like the constraints of fatherhood would hold me back. Every minute tha
Productivity for Parents
Tragically, four children are reported to have been killed. However, compared to almost any other military operation, this act of mass sabotage appear
But if this Trojan Horse operation was as precise as it appears to have been, then it ranks among the most ethical acts of self-defense in memory. The
Sometimes, Violence Really Is the Answer
“Hitler killed five million [sic] Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They
Consider how much time you spend thinking—in even the subtlest way, in the back of the simulator—about what others think of you. Be mindful of doing t
The one thing you can’t escape in your life is yourself. Anyone who’s traveled long enough knows this. It’s eventually clear we carry with us on the r
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's w
If sugar is a counterfeit for spiritual sweetness, then artificial sweeteners such as saccharin and aspartame are a counterfeit of a counterfeit. They
Sugar offers a hollow sweetness that one can easily detect through careful, attentive eating. If you slowly chew and taste an oversweetened food, you'
Sugar is a shoddy counterfeit for the real sweetness of life. Often as children we were given "treats" as rewards, for being in some way "good." The w
Ozempic® may cause serious side effects, including: Possible thyroid tumors, including cancer.
Second, there’s no such thing as “individual” contributions! All work, all labor—regardless of job or industry—is a collective. The problem here reall
So: stop calling yourself and your coworkers “ICs”. You are a designer, an engineer, a producer. Your contribution deserves more than a moniker that i
“I don't say no because I'm so busy. I say no because I don't want to be busy.” Courtney Carver

Instead of following a more conventional path of education, I sought out the thinkers and teachers who were actually interesting to my unmedicated min
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Th
Magnesium is a bonafide anti-stress mineral. It helps to balance blood sugar, optimize circulation and blood pressure, relax tense muscles, reduce pai
He is a proponent of magnesium supplementation. Our ability to buffer magnesium with healthy kidneys is very high. He takes 600 to 800 mg per day, alt
HbA1c (usually read as “hemoglobin A1c”): “They say that, basically, you age at the rate you produce insulin. HbA1c will tell me what was the average
Stable attention is the ability to intentionally direct and sustain the focus of attention, as well as to control the scope of attention. Intentionall
Awakening from our habitual way of perceiving things requires a profound shift in our intuitive understanding of the nature of reality. Awakening is a
The two main objectives of meditation practice are: Developing stable attention Cultivating powerful mindfulness that optimizes the interaction betwee
One of the most important things to learn is how to separate awareness from thinking, and then we can see that thoughts and emotions are not the cente
Tatsächlich zeigt die Forschung auch hier ziemlich klar: Nein, Regeln funktionieren. 2017 veröffentlichten Forschende genau zu dieser Frage eine Metaa
Eltern, die ihre Kinder vom exzessiven Trinken abhalten wollen, ohne Streit und Trotz, könnten es am leichtesten so versuchen: In Gegenwart des Nachwu
People who start drinking at a young age (13-15) are more likely to get addicted to alcohol, no matter if their families are alcoholism-prone. Even if
We ensure kids can’t get to poisonous liquids in the house such as turps, draino, Etc. Yet we leave bottles of alcohol around the kitchen. We drink it












