#82: Connecting dots, cultivating intention, and building a more human internet

A tradeoff occurs every time you get feedback. You become slightly more mainstream, slightly more aligned with the zeitgeist. You become marginally more of an exploiter than an explorer, standing on the shoulders of the giants who conceived the paradigm you’re striving to build upon. This is very effective when you want to align your work with othe

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The only reliable ways I've found to maintain this vitality are collecting inspiration and writing. I notice that a certain pressure builds up inside me when I am not writing enough. Writing helps me unearth and resolve the self-sabotaging stories living inside me and helps me regain my creative confidence. Collecting inspiration charges my creativ... See more

On Sublime, the best way to consume ideas is to set an intention: you put in a thought or idea, and we construct a feed of related ideas around that. The Internet molds around your intentions. It's conducive to creation, not passive consumption.

And the problem is that every time you go on Twitter/Instagram/etc., you lose hours. Not because you're browsing for hours but because those spaces agitate the mind, and it becomes nearly impossible to get back into contemplative mode. The spirit of Sublime is very much about rescuing that lost intentionality—and making space for thinking—without l... See more

I want to pause on something you said in an

interview with Rebecca Robins

last year:

“In a world that is increasingly urgent, it’s important to cultivate intention. And this is a root of so many of the mental challenges that we’re seeing. People don’t have clarity on who they are and what they want – and, effectively, they’re delegating it to techno... See more

For us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to connect countless dots, cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of places, and combine and recombine these to build new things.