Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
The “structural gap-mapper” approach:
Ines Lee • Think First, AI Second
I love 1980s hip-hop because there’s no way to predict it from projecting trends in 1970s pop. It questions basic assumptions! It’s missing elements that you might have thought were necessary (like melodies) and it brings in elements you didn’t know you wanted until you heard them (like samples and turntable scratching.) Now the 1980s rap exists,
... See moreDr. Ethan Hein • AI Slop Predates AI
You remember when the iPhone came out? Nobody ran around saying you've got to get an iPhone. What happened is you would just see an iPhone and you would see how great the pictures were, whatever the hell, and you'd go, I want that. Nobody had to evangelize you or explain, well, what iPhone does is it co-locates super computing power in your pocket.
... See moreMills Baker, Seth Godin, Robin Sloan, Jasmine Sun, David Perell, Joan Westenberg, Venkatesh Rao, Anu... • Whoa: Conversations on AI & Creativity
- “Art exposes us to the universal experience of being a meaning-making animal in a universe where meanings falter. A good definition of art, it seems to me, might be the science of making meaning-making tools.”
Garth Greenwell • Just a moment...
‘Listen. You have this thing in you called a personal will. It’s what motivates you to want things in life—career advancement, affirmation, fancy cars. And it’s not bad, that’s just how people are. But sooner or later you find out it can’t be satisfied. So then your personal will gets you into spirituality, because that could be the source of some
... See moreSasha Chapin • Last Year My Mind Exploded and Now I'm in Spiritual Puberty Again
Adyashanti in his talk "Beyond the personal will"
The idea of having this giant graph where all your data is hyperlinked is cute, but in practice, it’s completely unnecessary. Things live in separate apps just fine. How often, truly, do you find yourself wanting to link a task in your todo list app to a file in Dropbox?
Fernando Borretti • Unbundling Tools for Thought
If you’ve ever felt hesitant to write because you’re “not sure what to say,” consider this: the act of writing itself often reveals what you didn’t know you knew. It’s a tool for discovery, a way to explore ideas and refine thoughts. Writing isn’t about knowing all the answers in advance; it’s about trusting that the answers will come through the
... See moreAkindele Davies • Writing as Self-Discovery: Embracing the Process Over the Outcome
If you don’t have any vocabulary for a medium, then the film or song or dish simply appears as a blur of impressions, it’s hard to draw lines and isolate the particular areas and causes of enjoyment. So, having a better vocabulary for a given medium doesn’t just make you sound smart, it increases the resolution of your enthusiasm. If you’re the
... See moreSasha Chapin from Sasha's 'Newsletter' • How to Like Everything More
Virtues of having a rich vocabulary
Having better words to describe things you enjoy not only makes you sound smart — it actually helps you to enjoy them more.