Daniel Wentsch

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. Ambiently, it surfaces itself into my life every morning, usually while I’m working out. It’s something to think about.

The Headless Way is a really fun and funny set of pointing out instructions with an Alice in Wonderland aesthetic, which feel very different from traditional meditation stuff. There’s a great Headless Way course on the Waking Up app.

• 2 inhales through the nose (one long until you feel you can do no more, and then a second small one)


• 1 long extended exhale through the mouth


• 1–3 times

It’s important to realize attention and peripheral awareness are two different ways of “knowing” the world. 2 Each has its virtues as well as its shortcomings. Attention singles out some small part of the content of the field of conscious awareness from the rest in order to analyze and interpret it. On the other hand, peripheral awareness is more

To your question about what people starting out can do, I think there has been a crisis in criticism. I mean that in the most expansive way—not just hardcore criticism, but consideration of art. Think about the first album from some little band down the street from me. Who will write a review of that on the internet? No one. It was always hard to

To activate the sympathetic nervous system: narrow your vision. Go into “Portrait Mode” and let everything else fall into the background. To activate the parasympathetic nervous system: widen your visual field. See as much of your environment as you can.

Examples of questions you might ask:Can you tell me more about what your objectives were for [specific aspect or element of the design]?What other options did you consider for [aspect/element]?Why did you choose this approach for [aspect/element]?Were there any influencers or constraints that affected your choices?

Meditation is a weird fuckin’ hobby. You study every bit of your mind for years. And then one day, that mind disappears, and you don’t know anything anymore.