when creating vector, i thought of...
I find explaining any actually interesting idea usually requires explaining like 5 subsidiary ideas. If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky it’s like 25 and either they’re ready for a three hour lecture or you’re not going to succeed.
Emmett Shear • Tweet
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Some companies go all in on the ecstasy - ‘here’s our magical vision for the future’. Others commit to the laundry - look at our rich feature-set isn’t it amazing?”
sublimeinternet.substack.com • 2023 end of year letter
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this captures how I feel about vector, we still exist in that liminal space between ideation and creation. It’s exciting and frightening all at the same time and I take comfort in struggling to find the words because that means it’s something new!
The best thing is being able to make a living doing work that indulges your curiosities with people you legitimately like being with, what a rare thing indeed.
Strands of Genius: Activating Musical Neural Pathways, Getting Lost In Screenshots, Digital Twinning
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What is risky work? And what if we tend to fundamentally mistake what is or is not risky? What if the formulaic, expected, small c-conservative work is, in fact, the riskiest? What if fitting in with what’s expected and copying what everyone else is doing, far from de-risking, actually adds risk?
Off Kilter 141: World’s Most Expensive Scuba Mask.
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But the real dance will continue. Artists will continue to need context. It's what brings value and understanding to their work. People — many of them also artists — will continue to delight in interpreting and helping other people understand creative work. It's what brings us joy. This is the dance that matters. It hasn't stopped and it won't stop... See more
Yancey Strickler • The prestige recession
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The speed of our forward motion is directly related to the velocity of the people around us
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When you hit publish, you are far more likely to strive valiantly towards your deepest desires, and live in accord with the values you committed to the page.
The process of earnest striving, and living in integrity with your words, only feeds the fire, and attracts ever more people and opportunities into your world. Writing and publishing a manifest... See more
The process of earnest striving, and living in integrity with your words, only feeds the fire, and attracts ever more people and opportunities into your world. Writing and publishing a manifest... See more
rob hardy • Manifestos Are Magic Spells
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The thing beneath the thing is the process.
The process of humans coming together.
Sharing ideas outside of the cookie-cutter norm.
And making something beautiful.
Because that’s what humans do.
The process is the point.
Because it is only through the process
that a squishy little grey blob
can become
something sublime.
The process of humans coming together.
Sharing ideas outside of the cookie-cutter norm.
And making something beautiful.
Because that’s what humans do.
The process is the point.
Because it is only through the process
that a squishy little grey blob
can become
something sublime.
The story of Sublime's logo
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How Liquid Death founder, Mike Cessario, created a billion dollar water brand
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people aren’t paying for the creative work that people actually wanna do!
sometimes it’s better to not know the rules, coming in like “you can’t do that you can’t do that”