Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”
—Pablo Picasso
In other words, there is a network in the brain devoted to inner experience, and a network devoted to exterior experience, and usually activation in one is associated with reduced activation in the other. Typically, being lost in your interiority means being less attuned to exterior experience, and vice versa. But during non-dual experience, when
... See moreColleagues across knowledge work described the same creeping inability to start meaningful projects without first consulting AI.
This past June, MIT researchers published findings that seemed to explain what we’re experiencing. They scanned the brains of 54 students writing essays under three conditions: using only ChatGPT, using only Google, or
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Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing.
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it.
To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.
Bullfighting can be an art.
Boxing can be an art.
Loving can be an art.
Opening a can of sardines can be an art.
Not many have style.
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What makes this mode so different is the way it loosens the grip of the keyboard on the thought process. When I type, I’m always self-editing—backspacing, rephrasing, or policing awkward syntax. When I talk, the ideas tumble out in real time. It’s less linear, but that turns out to be great for brainstorming.