Daniel Wentsch

Increasing the power of consciousness isn’t a mysterious process. It’s a lot like weight training. You simply do exercises where you practice sustaining close attention and strong peripheral awareness at the same time. This is the only way to make consciousness more powerful. The more vivid you can make your attention while still sustaining

Ich sah nach draußen. Die Mauersegler. Das Morgenlicht in den langen Blättern der Weiden am Fluss. Das Blau Blau Blau. Warum hörte die Schönheit der Welt am Fensterbrett auf? Dort draußen war alles. Hier drin war gar nichts.

Pacifism seems to place infinite weight on sins of commission and none whatsoever on those of omission. It is a counterfeit ethics: for instead of grappling with the hard realities of our world, pacifism takes as its focus the imagined moral purity of the pacifist himself—who merely pretends to be good while others do the dirty work of defending

Disabling buttons can cause more problems for users than benefits.

Missing feedback

When you click a disabled button, nothing happens. The button doesn’t explain what’s wrong or help you fix the problem. It provides no helpful feedback. If the user thinks their answers are correct, not providing feedback can make the UI feel broken.

Missing focus

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HbA1c (usually read as “hemoglobin A1c”): “They say that, basically, you age at the rate you produce insulin. HbA1c will tell me what was the average insulin over the last 3 months. . . . I’ve found over the years that, actually, the amount of magnesium, supplemental magnesium, you consume, is the fastest way to drop that value. So magnesium is

I don't use an external monitor - I prefer to focus on one manageable screen with one app in full screen mode. I tend to find the addition of a monitor to my desk complicates things and encourages the worst of my peripheral-hoarding-excesses.

When eating, just eat. When drinking, just drink. Mindfulness is the very best seasoning, for your food and for your entire life. Enjoy each bite, enjoy each moment!

To find my voice . It took staring down my 50th birthday to believe I had a valuable perspective to share. My writing to that point had been private musings in a journal or business memos.