Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
The feeling when you jump from a high place and fall through warm air and then hit the water. The way the bubbles explode white around you as you shoot into the dark. The light tickling as the bubbles rush across your skin.
Just the pure physical joy of thrashing your arms around in water. To fill the kid’s buckets and throw it at the sun—the way... See more
Just the pure physical joy of thrashing your arms around in water. To fill the kid’s buckets and throw it at the sun—the way... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Swimming in July
Normally, when we pay attention to someone or something, we undertake what Weil calls a “muscular effort”: our eyes lock on another’s eyes, our expressions reflect the proper response, and our bodies shift in relation to the object to which we are paying attention. This kind of attention flourishes in therapists’ offices, business schools, and... See more
Robert Zaretsky • Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention
muscular effort vs reflective attention
The thesaurus sucks. You can always tell when a writer is using a thesaurus and random words are substituted to sound smart. The problem is the thesaurus has a bad architecture. It's flat. Everything connects to everything (the original sin), and it treats every synonym as equal (they're not!). Since we don't have a hierarchy of "core words" and
... See morethe work of defining what needs to be done is harder than doing the work itself
I slammed my head into the wall behind me except it wasn’t the wall it was the door jamb was worse by which i mean better by which i mean neither. The blinding light - god stuff, I was sure - lasted only half a second before I was brought back to the boiling hot water overflowing in my brain in the room containing not only the door jamb - and btw
... See moreSome people spend their whole lives looking for a good story.
Rayne Fisher-Quann • against narrative
A lot of the work in building Sublime has been, what do I want from the web? And personally, I want to follow my curiosity wherever it leads . Without sifting through mountains of clickbait and SEO and content designed to feed an algorithm, I want to mindfully collect the pieces of the internet that resonate with me. And I want to do this in a... See more