Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as
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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
... See moreLike, 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
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so much AI stuff focuses on giving you results without letting you participate in the process, as if the thinking/digging/discovery is purely an obstacle and not the whole point at times
The way attention and peripheral awareness work together is a lot like the relationship between visual focus and peripheral vision. Try fixing your eyes on an external object. You will notice that, as you focus on the object, your peripheral vision takes in other information elsewhere in your field of vision. You can compare that with your
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Meaning Systems
- 💡 Wittgenstein demonstrated that an evidentiary understanding of reality isn't enough.
- 💡 People create meaning systems with their communities.
- 💡 These meaning systems explain experiential reality.
Whoa, Vol. 1 - The Podcast • 02. Douglas Rushkoff - Whoa, Vol. 1
I’ve always had this sense that if you build a container for something, you will make things to fill it. What I frequently do is try to figure out different containers. A website is a container.