Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
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The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.
Thoughts on Design and Beauty and Writing
Feynman Principle
I don't use an external monitor - I prefer to focus on one manageable screen with one app in full screen mode. I tend to find the addition of a monitor to my desk complicates things and encourages the worst of my peripheral-hoarding-excesses.
Westenberg. • 2025 Productivity Update
Status anxiety, childhood emotional needs, and learning to accept ordinariness through early feelings of specialness and recognition
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It's funny you mentioned churches. I mean, the really helpful thing about religions is that they tend to tell their believers that someone really knows them and really cares about them and is looking at them.
And if you think about the impulse to be rich and famous and esteemed. It's really a desire that gets soaked up by religions.
Religions are
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Make space for unstructured creativity. You don’t need to create something useful or beautiful. You could doodle while watching your favorite TV show or imagine alternative endings to a novel you just read. In fact, you don’t need to produce anything at all.
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It can be translated. It can be produced and consumed at variable speeds. It is asynchronous. It can be compared, diffed, clustered, corrected, summarized and filtered algorithmically. It permits multiparty editing. It permits branching conversations, lurking, annotation, quoting, reviewing, summarizing, structured responses, exegesis, even fan... See more