head on the cloud; feet on the ground
Itay Dreyfus and
head on the cloud; feet on the ground
Sublime is not:
Sublime is not another note-taking tool to add your grocery list or to store your kids health insurance info – the ideas that move you should not live alongside the daily minutia.
Sublime is not a read it later tool that becomes a graveyard of junk.
Sublime is not a social network – there’s no likes, no comments, no vanity metrics.
Subl
our end of year 2023 letter, attempting to define who we are and articulating the challenge of building a company rooted in both practical utility (the laundry) and cultural intangibles that we’re responding to (the ecstasy)
This is, I think, at the root of why I like reading private notes so much. There are so few places where we get to be close to other people and see the messy humanity they carry behind the identities they have polished for society life. There are so few places where we can apprentice ourselves to the unspeakable labors of thinking and feeling that... See more
Henrik Karlsson • On the pleasure of reading private notebooks
They told us productivity would set us free. So we organized and optimized and checked all the boxes. We became very good at being very busy.
But in the quiet moments between tasks, I felt something missing. Not the missing of empty inboxes or completed lists. The missing of wonder. Of discovery. Of the slow, sacred act of paying attention.
So I
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