I often think about how the internet is a collective consciousness for humanity and how the first 30 years of the internet didn’t create products with that context in mind and lost the reverence of that sacredness. The products created didn’t have that aspiration in mind and simply wanted to monetize and grow. Sublime is the first product in a long

This passage from Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From, which is discussing Darwin’s use of keeping a commonplace book (a practice I have always loved myself) as a vital part of where his most important ideas came from, just jumped off the page at me:

“The great minds of the period —Milton, Bacon, Locke were zealous believers in the

Sublime = Digital collaborative commonplace book