Daniel Wentsch

In an emotionally healthy childhood, the child can see that the good carer isn’t either entirely good or wholly bad and so isn’t worthy of either idealization or denigration. The child accepts the faults and virtues of the carer with melancholy maturity and gratitude—and in doing so, by extension, becomes ready to accept that everyone they like

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

My daily writing is usually mundane. I’ll work through why I’m annoyed about something in my work or home life, or try to figure out whether I actually need to move to a new note taking app or just want to want to move note taking apps for the sake of it. The topic matters less than the act of forcing vague feelings into specific words. Once

it’s possible that you’ve already had a non-dual experience, and you just didn’t recognize it as such. Lots of people spontaneously have moments of mystical connection and then don’t systematically investigate it, or don’t return to it for one or another reason.

Switch from team “I will one day write something good” to team “I have no choice but to write a piece of shit” and then take off your “bad writer” hat and replace it with a “petty critic” hat and go to town on that poor hack’s draft and that’s your second draft. Fifteen drafts later, or whenever someone paying you starts yelling at you, who knows,

As users of large language models, we benefit from relating to both Vygotsky's and Mollick's theories. We need to understand both in which areas they are actually better than us, and how we best utilize the models when we want them to help us in our learning. Translated to the use of a language model and Mollick's idea of a jagged edge, the zone of