Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
wentsch.me
Fill your library
Seen in the book: Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share
The older I get, the more I find that you can only live with beings who liberate you, and who love you with an affection that is as light to bear as it is strong to feel… This is how I am your friend, I love your happiness, your freedom, your adventure…and I would like to be for you the companion you are sure of, always.
– Albert Camus
We don’t realize how much healing, release, and freedom is available to us if we just remember to deepen our breath and slow it down many times during the course of our day.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
A focus indicator can also take other forms, but outlines are very common for good reasons.
Outlines have an advantage over other visual indicators (like borders or background colors, for example) in that they can be applied to the element without causing any significant changes to that element. And since an outline is not part of an element’s box ... See more
Outlines have an advantage over other visual indicators (like borders or background colors, for example) in that they can be applied to the element without causing any significant changes to that element. And since an outline is not part of an element’s box ... See more
sarasoueidan.com • A guide to designing accessible, WCAG-compliant focus indicators
Let's Make the Web Accessible for All! #a11y
Why outlines work best and box-shadow should be avoided to indicate focus
Rules also make your event feel like ‘a thing’ and that is half the battle. If you give an event a name (even something as boring as Coffee Morning), make it regular and invent some rules, it will become ‘a thing’.
Russell Davies • Do Interesting – Notice. Collect. Share
Before you start reading a new book, take out a blank sheet of paper. Write down the basic scaffolding of everything that you already know about the book or its subject—make a rough mind map, if you will. Then you read a chapter or two.
Dan Shipper • The Truth About Mental Models With Shane Parrish
Das Grundproblem ist der Haß gegen Israel, gegen den wir uns nur wehren, den wir aber nicht aus der Welt schaffen können. Wir leben an der Bruchlinie zwischen westlicher und anti-westlicher Welt, und im Moment ist es an dieser Bruchlinie ungemütlich. Ich glaube nicht, dass die anti-westliche Kampagne, die auch im Westen viele Menschen überzeugt hat... See more
Big Exhalation Inhale as much as you can, hold that inhalation for a few seconds, and then exhale slowly while relaxing. A big inhalation really expands your lungs, requiring a big exhalation to bring the lungs back to their resting size. This stimulates the PNS, which is in charge of exhaling.
Rick Hanson • Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
This is probably not news to anyone who follows my account, but I really want to shout it from the rooftop:
When there are fascists around, *more polarization is better than less polarization*. Meeting fascists halfway means you’ve just moved much closer to fascism. It is and will always be a losing strategy. Calls for “unity” that don’t explicitly... See more
When there are fascists around, *more polarization is better than less polarization*. Meeting fascists halfway means you’ve just moved much closer to fascism. It is and will always be a losing strategy. Calls for “unity” that don’t explicitly... See more