making sublime
a collection of thoughts, musings, and ideas that inspire sublime
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making sublime
World building is the new web design
Worlds make your brand unforgettable
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I miss personal blogs when they were smaller, less polished, and felt less like a performance, and more like peeking into someone's inner life
sari azouttwitter.comsublime = less like a performance, more like peeking into someone's inner life
The tools we use and create
should be made with dignity.
And they should support the dignity
of the people that use them.
As well as our individual taste,
and others'.
–After convo with Yanis.
gabriel and
Whoa, Vol. 2: Conversations on AI × Creativity
sublime.metalabel.com
However, I don’t think it’s right to say that Google search completely sucks . A lot of things we search for now, we take for granted. For example, searching for the nearest cafe that is open right now, getting directions to an unfamiliar place. As the Yellow Pages, Google is great. I often jump off Duck Duck Go if I want to find more information... See more
Elizabeth TaiIn Essays • Is the Internet really broken?
The idea that we could have so much community with so little effort was an illusion. We are digitally connected to more people than ever and terribly lonely nevertheless. Closeness requires time, and time has not fallen in cost or risen in quantity.
I do not blame anyone but myself for this. This is not something the corporations did to me. This is something I did to myself. But I am looking now for software that insists I make choices rather than whispers that none are needed. I don’t want my digital life to be one shame closet after another. A new metaphor has taken hold for me: I want it to be a garden I tend, snipping back the weeds and nourishing the plants.
We need ritual technology. Technology designed for ritual use.
Why? Most of the software we use daily is designed to engagement-max. Social media feeds, loot boxes, compulsion loops, gang gang yes yes yes ice cream so good. You’re caught in a feedback loop with the algorithm, and you are the squishiest part of that loop.
Ritual technology operates on... See more
Why? Most of the software we use daily is designed to engagement-max. Social media feeds, loot boxes, compulsion loops, gang gang yes yes yes ice cream so good. You’re caught in a feedback loop with the algorithm, and you are the squishiest part of that loop.
Ritual technology operates on... See more
Gordon Brander • Ritual Technology
what’s at stake is not just the future of the internet, but the future of how we learn, communicate and connect; our right to shape the technology that, in turn, shapes us.