Problems Sublime Solves—at Least for Me

Solving the problem of having a lot of inspiration but struggling to access it when you actually need to use it in your creative process

Not all questions seek answers, some seek journeys.

If Google and Perplexity are about getting conclusive answers, Sublime is about living the questions. About taking the scenic route through a human-curated landscape of ideas.

For years, I collected insights and knowledge in private spaces no one could access. I found that to be a huge loss.

Every brain holds useful information but the majority of it doesn’t get shared. The bar for publishing is too high. Twitter and places like it turn everything into a giant popularity contest of likes and follows.

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McLuhan famously said, the medium is the message .

With Sublime, the medium — messy, nonlinear ideas, inspirations, and insights before they coalesce into something final — is the message.

Most tools treat the process of consuming and the process of creating as distinctly different—we consume articles full of words, but write in an empty Google Doc. It’s like we are expected to gather ingredients in one kitchen and cook the meal in another.

Sublime bridges the gap between curation and creation by bringing you the right idea, exactly w... See more

On Sublime, every idea is a portal to related ideas.

The magic of creative work comes after you collect ideas and start to find the connections between them.

Tools like Notion or Evernote aren’t built to help you make the most of what you’ve collected. They feel unnatural because humans don’t think in folders and categories; we thrive on connections and associations.

Tools like Notion let you do pretty much anything but will require watching 17 YouTube tutorials, and paying $699 for a course to actually figure out how to do any of it.

Sublime is for people who value simplicity and a beautiful user experience above all else.

As Austin Kleon said,

Creativity is about connections, and connections are not made by siloing everything off into its own space. New ideas are formed by interesting juxtapositions, and interesting juxtapositions happen when things are out of place.