Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
Somewhere in the future, your today is the good old days. There is a good chance later in life, you want to live your today’s good old days, despite its shortcomings.
Stoic #1: Use Prospective Retrospection to Minimize Future Regret
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 means that our choice to bring them into existence has value above and beyond whatever effect they have on our happiness.
Paul Bloom • What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness
Science of happiness and Raising children
value above mere happiness
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 world's going to go on without us… You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself, you decide for yourself.
– Bob Dylan
It reminded me of a somewhat famous brain warm-up. How do you make toast? You get one piece of paper, a marker, and three minutes of time.
Try this at home, with colleagues in your next meeting, or with friends if you’ve never done it. Draw the instructions for someone else to make toast. With no other notes, you should end up with various... See more
Try this at home, with colleagues in your next meeting, or with friends if you’ve never done it. Draw the instructions for someone else to make toast. With no other notes, you should end up with various... See more
Lisande • Letter 003 - Bluegrass, trees and speeding fines
Faced with these requirements, we could have said, “Let’s use a gradient instead.” Or better—just white. But would a gradient make you want to open your inbox? Would a white background give you that feeling of outside air inside the app ?
It’s tempting to build functionality and sprinkle “design” on top. But when you have a visual north star from
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Whoa: Conversations on AI & Creativity
Mills Baker, Seth Godin, Robin Sloan, Jasmine Sun, David Perell, Joan Westenberg, Venkatesh Rao, Anu...readwise.ioUsability Issues Caused by Infinite Scrolling
Despite the benefits discussed above, infinite scrolling does have several drawbacks, which can impair the user experience:
Difficulty refinding content
Illusion of completeness
Inability to access the end of the page
Accessibility problems
Increased page load
Poor SEO performance
Procrastinators often follow exactly the wrong tack. They try to minimize their commitments, assuming that if they have only a few things to do, they will quit procrastinating and get them done. But this goes contrary to the basic nature of the procrastinator and destroys his most important source of motivation. The few tasks on his list will be by
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