Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
Our new AIs have been trained on a huge amount of our cultural history and are using it to provide us with text and images in response to our queries. But there is no index or map to what they know and where they might be most helpful. Thus, we need people who have deep or broad knowledge of unusual fields to use AI in ways that others cannot,
... See moreEthan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI
Knowledge of the humanities as unique qualification to work (well) with AI!
Like, the other day I was thinking about how hard it was to build a mental model of the apps you’re building these days. Things change so fast and mutate so quickly now that you don’t have time to fully internalize how things work. Chad Fowler talked about it on The Ruby AI Podcast last week: your brain used to be able to relax while you did the
... See moreScott Werner • The Only Skill That Matters Now
To come up with new ideas, you have to have space to be messy, to procrastinate, and to let your mind wander and free-associate. But there needs to be a balance. You eventually need to channel it into something concrete, or you won’t produce anything.
Dasha Nekrasova • Jon Rafman and Dasha Nekrasova on the Horror We Call Life
Further, Craft’s search functionality is ham-stringed by its reliance on text blocks. For example, If you search for a journal entry with the words fatherhood and marriage, Craft will only find documents where the words appear in the same paragraph. If the search words appear in different paragraphs of the same document, Craft won’t find it. Day
... See morerobertbreen.com • A Writer’s Journal: Day One or Craft? - Robert Breen
Blue tit builds nest
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
Curate inspiration every day. Find apps, sites, and publications where you can brows through steams of inspiration, and save anything you like into niche buckets of interests. You'll get more creative, and you'll start to see ideas and make connections you hadn't considered before.
Marty Bell • WePresent | Marty Bell’s 10 tips for a more fulfilling (and fun) life
One of the most widely respected non-dual teachers today is Adyashanti, who originally studied Zen formally but began to teach more direct path style after his awakening. Adyashanti recommends trying out the inquiry “what am I?”, which I found to land better than Ramana’s “who am I?”. The word “who” can tend to evoke dimensions of identity, which
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