Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
As James Bessen notes repeatedly in the Harvard Business Review, automation doesn’t just create or destroy jobs — it transforms them. When bank ATMs rolled out, obituary writers sharpened their quills for bank tellers, but bank teller employment didn’t collapse — it grew. That’s because ATMs lowered the cost of running a branch, which meant banks
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The best presentations don’t just tell people something—they tell them the same thing again and again but in different ways. They use analogies to help people understand.
Russell Davies • Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share
That’s why there’s no replacement for text, and there never will be. Thoughts that can survive being written into words are on average truer than thoughts that never leave the mind. You know how you can find a leak in a tire by squirting dish soap on it and then looking for where the bubbles form? Writing is like squirting dish soap on an idea: it
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If a designer shows you work in progress, it’s a great sign. It means they’ve moved beyond a fear that all you’ll see is the broken stuff to a willingness to collaborate with you. Look at it in the spirit of collaboration. Ask questions about what they’re showing. Talk about where they’re headed with it. Feel free to ask if there’s any feedback
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Creativity requires connecting the dots, and connecting the dots requires allowing time for my subconscious to consolidate my ideas and make associations. This means that, from time to time, I need to just stare out the window and do nothing.
This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.
This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.
Ozan Varol • You’re doing better than you think. Here’s why. - Ozan Varol
Standing in front of all my stuff, it hit me that all of it used to be money, and all of that used to be time.
Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
This is probably not news to anyone who follows my account, but I really want to shout it from the rooftop:
When there are fascists around, *more polarization is better than less polarization*. Meeting fascists halfway means you’ve just moved much closer to fascism. It is and will always be a losing strategy. Calls for “unity” that don’t explicitly... See more
When there are fascists around, *more polarization is better than less polarization*. Meeting fascists halfway means you’ve just moved much closer to fascism. It is and will always be a losing strategy. Calls for “unity” that don’t explicitly... See more
Rebecca Solnit • Weltschmerz à Gogo (@ThatWeltschmerz@kolektiva.social)
Reframe non-productive time. One of the reasons the exploration phase of the work is low value is that most of it doesn’t look like work. It’s lots of reading, and sitting and thinking, and doodling, and trying things that lead to dead ends. Non-productive time feels like a waste—but it doesn’t have to! One way to think about this kind of time is
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Motivation vs Procrastination and
Non-productive is often framed wrongly so
To give both sighted and non-sighted users an equivalent experience, we can use the well-supported aria-invalid attribute. When the user focuses the input, it will now announce “Invalid” (or similar) in screen readers.