Daniel Wentsch

Awakening from our habitual way of perceiving things requires a profound shift in our intuitive understanding of the nature of reality. Awakening is a cognitive event, the culminating Insight in a series of very special Insights called vipassana. This climax of the progress of Insight only occurs when the mind is in a unique mental state called

Faced with these requirements, we could have said, “Let’s use a gradient instead.” Or better—just white. But would a gradient make you want to open your inbox? Would a white background give you that feeling of outside air inside the app ?

It’s tempting to build functionality and sprinkle “design” on top. But when you have a visual north star from

AI is trained on vast swaths of humanity’s cultural heritage, so it can often best be wielded by people who have a knowledge of that heritage. To get the AI to do unique things, you need to understand parts of the culture more deeply than everyone else using the same AI systems. So now, in many ways, humanities majors can produce some of the most

Collecting little moments like this is at the heart of creative work—even before AI. Writers have writers’ notebooks, artists have sketchbooks, and musicians often record snippets of melodies. These collections become the seeds of future work. If we approach creativity like a language model, we see that these collections are also the context for

Once I stopped treating the keyboard as my only entry point, the whole shape of my work changed: Ideas flow faster, structure emerges in conversation, and clarity comes from rounds and rounds of “How’s this?” and “What about that?” If you haven’t tried talking to your computer yet, I highly recommend it.