Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
Something to try the next time you’re considering a product or a service: spend a little time thinking about the motive behind it. It’s something that’s easy to skip entirely, especially when we’re busy evaluating a thing by its far more obvious and surface-level criteria. But motive is really important, and I think it can be an effective filter... See more
Neatnik Notes · Motive as a filter
v cool mental model
The second question— What do you believe about this topic? [which I suggest writing as a series of “I believe...” statements]—reveals all of the ideas you can write about confidently, as well as creating options for how to make those arguments. It also exposes those ideas you’re less convinced of and should therefore dig further into, treat with... See more
Harrison Moore • One lesson and one puzzle from running my first writing workshop
lil sites doing cool things and
going through these, I love the feeling of being guided through learning something by someone who feels passionately about that thing
idea for sublime could be to have people teach things or walk people through something they care a lot about inside of a collection
In that era, people could even make their own little social networks, so the conversations and content you found on an online forum or discussion were as likely to have been hosted by the efforts of one lone creator than to have come from some giant corporate conglomerate. It was a more democratized internet, and while the world can’t return to... See more
Anil Dash • The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
Reading is a passionate act. If you read a story not just with your head, but also with your body and feelings and soul, the way you dance or listen to music, then it becomes your story. And it can mean infinitely more than any message. It can offer beauty. It can take you through pain. It can signify freedom. And it can mean something different... See more