A SUBLIME INTERNET

To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.

Knowledge is the essential human project. And news is not knowledge.

Spending years of our life plugged into an endless stream of newsfeeds and watching staged posts from other people’s lives makes us anxious in the short term, and keeps us from living the lives we want to live in the long term.

Collections can be created for:

Questions like: “What does it mean to be human?”

Lists like: “Beautiful personal sites” or “Ways to be sentimental without looking at your phone”

Personal projects like: “Essay on boutique search engines”

Concepts like: “The early days of ambitious projects”

Topics like: “Future of work” or“Parenting”

You can’t just collect information. To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you also need a purpose. It can be achieving mastery of a domain, collecting raw material for a project, curating something for someone as an act of generosity, or collecting inspiration for an essay you’ve been wanting to write.

That’s the promise: when you collect everything interesting you come across, your world will come alive.

Collections change the organizing function from trying to describe broad topics to tracking the potential use, context, function or world that a card should live in.

In a traditional tagging system, the question is: in which topic should I store this card? On Sublime, the question is: in which context will I want to stumble upon it again?

You want serendipitous encounters with other wholesome thinkers and tinkerers on the Internet without the pressure to accumulate likes or build an audience.

Think with the door open

Most social networks are the equivalent of opening the door to your home and shouting at your neighbors.

Private note-taking and single-player productivity tools are the equivalent of shutting your door.

Creativity is just connecting things

In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to peek over the fences of other disciplines, connect countless dots, and combine and recombine them to build new ideas.

Sublime is designed to help you connect ideas. That means every card you collect becomes a node that can be conne... See more