Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Desire is never about the object itself. If it were, once you acquired it, the desire would vanish. Yet, your wardrobe keeps getting stuffier while you still find yourself with nothing to wear. Desire is about what the object seems to promise us: a fuller, richer existence.
. These days, I grab whatever notebook I feel like using. My notetaking has become more like my reading practice: read what you feel like, never feel obliged to finish, start a new book at any time. It sounds chaotic, and I have more half-read books than finished ones, but it has increased my reading dramatically. And most non-fiction books can be
... See moreGod is in the details.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ich denke an das Kitafest neulich, an die WhatsApp-Gruppe, in der sich Mütter überschlugen mit kulinarischen Beiträgen: "Mini-Gugelhupfe", "vegane Kokos-Kakao-Kugeln", "Tomaten-Nuss-Muffins". Der einzige Vater schrieb schlicht: "Ich bringe ein Glas Würstchen mit." Die waren beim Fest am schnellsten weg.
This rant via Shalom Auslander
I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light
... See moreA good rant, on how nothing makes sense, by Shalom Auslander. It reminds me of On Bullshit’s opening line: One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share.
Like, 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
... See moreOver the years, and especially through my time growing Behance, I have had the opportunity to follow and work with all kinds of designers from around the world. I’ve come to believe that the most effective designers are always solving a specific problem and seem to do so more by removing than adding.