Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
Your brain gives you the same little dopamine hits for understanding something as it does for doing something. Maybe even bigger hits, honestly. Understanding is clean and controllable and it happens entirely in your head (where you're safe.) Action is messy. Action = other people and uncontrollable variables and the possibility of looking stupid.
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... See moreJoan Westenberg • The Map Is Not the Territory
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 you do.
✅ Use any 2 colors as long as they vary by lightness.
✅ Colorbrlind users can tell red and green apart.
✅ Colorbrlind users can’t tell dark green and brown apart.
✅ Colorbrlind users can’t tell red
Perhaps ( perhaps ) we don't fear action so much as we fear feedback. As long as our model stays in our head, it can be perfect. The moment we test it against reality, we have to confront our wrongness. And for highly analytical people, being wrong feels like a moral failing rather than a normal part of learning.
Joan Westenberg • The Map Is Not the Territory
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 because there is some part of me that wanted to be more expressive, to take up more space, but I feared people’s judgment, in the same way I was judging others.
Jude Star • The Paradox of Pursuing Happiness: Insights from Depth Psychology
Introversion vs Extroversion and Random Resonance ✨
.psychology
It’s annoying me how this might apply to myself
Of course, not all AI systems need to forget. In high-stakes domains — medicine, law, scientific research — perfect recall can be life-saving. However, this essay is about a different kind of AI: the kind we bring into our daily lives. The ones we turn to for brainstorming, emotional support, writing help, or even casual companionship. These are
... See moreDOC • To Grow, We Must Forget… but Now AI Remembers Everything
Tantric masters were radically inclusive, claiming that realizing ultimate truth is available to everyone, not just those who have taken vows and sworn off material pleasures.
Jude Star • Tantra vs Vipassana
Diligence helps start you on your way, but the real solution to these obstacles is learning to enjoy your practice. One simple, powerful way to do that is to intentionally savor all feelings of physical comfort and deliberately cultivate the pleasure that can be found in quietness. Take satisfaction in the fact that you have actually sat down to
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