Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
If you don’t know what your goals are, you’ll only achieve them by accident.
Central IdeaForming critique is a simple four-step process. What are the design’s objectives? What are the elements of the design related to those objectives? Are those elements effective? Why or why not?
Adam Connor • Discussing Design
4 Steps of Design Critique
Denn anfangs ist Familie noch etwas, das total selbstverständlich ist. Man ist die meiste Zeit zusammen. Das erste Jahr verbringen Eltern mit ihren Kindern quasi im selben Raum. Dann sind es zunächst wenige Stunden ohne Kinder, dann immer mehr Stunden, dann Tage. Und irgendwann sind es nur noch wenige Stunden mit Kindern. Die gemeinsame Zeit löst
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Rather than finding problems for you to address, take a closer look at your own. What problems have you experienced that you’ve gained clarity into? What are some pressing problems you care deeply about now? Better yet, which problems have you always cared for that give them a timeless quality?
Once you’ve identified these problems, then your job is
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Stable attention is the ability to intentionally direct and sustain the focus of attention, as well as to control the scope of attention. Intentionally directing and sustaining attention simply means that we learn to choose which object we’re going to attend to, and keep our attention continuously fixed on it. Controlling the scope of attention
... See moreCuladasa John Yates • The Mind Illuminated - A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science
Every time you calm the ANS through stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), you tilt your body, brain, and mind increasingly toward inner peace and well-being.
Rick Hanson • Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
In spite of what I just said about how serious practitioners do get triggered, it’s also true that the shape of your mind changes such that you are not default worried. And when this happens, you realize that most people are default worried. Like, most people have a free-floating existential worry drive that latches onto any signal that things are
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I’m proposing a pragmatic approach: treat AI as if it were human because, in many ways, it behaves like one. This mindset, which echoes my “treat it like a person” principle of AI, can significantly improve your understanding of how and when to use AI in a practical, if not technical, sense.
AI excels at tasks that are intensely human. It can write,
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