Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
The difference between a good adverb and a bad one?
Bad adverbs are implied. Good adverbs twist meaning.
You're here, right now, in this present moment, and you're worried that being here isn't enough. That simply existing and working and loving people and having hobbies and being generally decent isn't enough, that you need to be extraordinary to justify the improbable fact of your existence.
You're here, and you're anxious about it.
Joan Westenberg • You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.
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
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getting upset at your kids for making mistakes doesn't teach them to not make mistakes, it teaches them to hide their mistakes
“What makes life worth living? No child asks itself that question. To children, life is self-evident. Life goes without saying: whether it is good or bad makes no difference. This is because children don’t see the world, don’t observe the world, don’t contemplate the world, but are so deeply immersed in the world that they don’t distinguish between... See more
Tim Ferrissx.comSo how should we use AI to help generate ideas? Fortunately, the papers, and other research on innovation, have some good suggestions. When you do include AI in idea generation, you should expect that most of its ideas will be mediocre. But that’s okay—that’s where you, as a human, come into the equation. You are looking for ideas that spark
... See moreEthan Mollick • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI
Although he initially found ‘the cult of journaling’ to be ‘a bit wallowingly self-absorbed’, Burkeman tried Morning Pages, liked it, and has since filled stacks of Moleskine and Leuchtturm notebooks with an unsystematic yet productive stream of thoughts, plans, emotions and ideas.
Roland Allen • The Notebook
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. -Edward Abbey