Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
zettel.org
• Prompt: “What’s something you own that people would be surprised to know you have?”
• Prompt: “Tell us about a hobby or collection you have.”
• Why it works: When you get people talking about themselves it allows them to share something slightly personal without forcing vulnerability, which opens up a space for connection, empathy and humanization
Jackie Colburn • Icebreakers You Can Steal for a Better Meeting
Members from IT, design, and business might all have different ways of referring to the same thing. By bringing your project team together to critique on a recurring basis, you provide a venue for this shared vocabulary to build up and take hold. As that vocabulary is being built, it’s happening across roles and silos, improving the ability of team
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build a shared vocabulary across disciplines
The software engineer Alice Bartlett is a genius with frames. Her daughter once wanted to replicate an art show she’d seen. Alice elevated her daughter’s work beyond the stuff that only a parent could love by thinking about the framing. She used square paper so lots of pictures could be stuck on the wall in an appealing grid. And she made mini artist bios and even red dots to make it look more real.
📚 Source: Do Interesting – Notice. Collect. Share. by Russell Davies
Fill your library
Seen in the book: Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share
When you ask people about their life’s meaning and purpose, parents say that their lives have more meaning than those of nonparents. A study by the social psychologist Roy Baumeister and his colleagues found that the more time people spent taking care of children, the more meaningful they said their life was—even though they reported that their
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