making sublime
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making sublime
When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and listen differently in conversations. In particular I’ll remember everything better; everything
... See moreJames Somers • JamesSomers – More people should write
I feel this way about collections. When I have a collection I have a mental bucket.
what if the apps you used helped you keep control over your attention and more intentionally use your time. how many times have we opened twitter/instagram/etc with an intention only to forget about it 15mins later, still sucked down the rabbit hole? sublime is an idea baby, but if we succeed, it's because we helped you live more intentionally.
Building a second brain is a useful strategy for coping with complexity. At the same time, it is fundamentally single-player, and most of the interesting things we do, we do together. Can we find ways to think and make meaning together over the internet?
But while the stereotype of ambition is indeed someone like Elon Musk (or Steve Jobs, before that), I don't think you literally need to aim for Mars to stir the heart of sailors. Nor do I think you need to be as abrasive or demanding, as the stereotype implies. That's the balance we've been trying to find at 37signals since its inception: The... See more
David Heinemeier Hansson (dhh@hey.com) • The Gift of Ambition
I have been keeping both physical and digital commonplace books for over five years.
The last couple of years, my commonplace book has been entirely digital.
This is my process for keeping a commonplace book in @obsdmd from start to finish.
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humans aren’t good at making things from scratch. our true genius, he thinks, lies in the art of taking something and evolving it, responding to it, combining it.
Inspired by Light Phone’s self description:
"Simple devices with quality tools, designed to be used as little as possible".