Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
What’s actually important to me is that you really understand that this is a real possibility, for you, in your life. If you practice with honest diligence, with tenderness and patience and determination, one day you will understand that you were completely wrong about everything. And you will be so, so happy about that.
Sasha Chapin • Last Year My Mind Exploded and Now I'm in Spiritual Puberty Again
The older I get, the more I find that you can only live with beings who liberate you, and who love you with an affection that is as light to bear as it is strong to feel… This is how I am your friend, I love your happiness, your freedom, your adventure…and I would like to be for you the companion you are sure of, always.
– Albert Camus
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
erin glasstwitter.comDeadlines 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, schedule with the publisher. This contract of external accountability keeps the fire going through the long slog, and it forces me to make clear-cut decisions about what to include, what to leave out,
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You need to understand that you can be kind. You can be kind to yourself. You don’t have to drive yourself. You’re not a taskmaster to yourself. You don’t have to earn that worth, because it comes from your identity.
Chris McAlister • Figure That Shift Out
We may think of egoists as people who have grown sick from too much love, but in fact the opposite is the case: An egoist is someone who has not yet had their fill. Selfcenteredness has to have a clear run in the early years if it isn’t to haunt and ruin the later ones. The so-called narcissist is simply a benighted soul who has not had a chance to
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Neil Pasricha • The Happiness Equation
To find my voice . It took staring down my 50th birthday to believe I had a valuable perspective to share. My writing to that point had been private musings in a journal or business memos.
Robert Breen • Why Blogs Matter
When models are capable enough to not just process an entire academic paper, but to understand the context in which “checking math” makes sense, and then actually check the results successfully, that radically changes what AIs can do. In fact, my experiment, along with others doing the same thing, helped inspire an effort to see how often o1 can
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