making sublime
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We will not make any changes that will damage the aesthetics of our product.
KG • Letter #113: Allen Zhang (2019)
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
... See moreif you have a garden and a library you have everything you need.
-cicero
📚 Arcipedia 📚
What if you could auto-create a new Wikipedia page for any topic or question that you were interested in?
@patrickmoberg from @browsercompany prototyped it internally. Doesn't make sense for our mission but there's promise here for others!
Without the right tools, our minds are hopelessly leaky.
thesephist.com • Incremental Note-Taking | thesephist.com
"They subscribe to your consciousness. So many “experts” will tell you to write for your reader. I think that’s BS. I write for me. And when people enjoy it, it’s a rewarding bonus. I love connecting with my readers, but I am not altering my words for them. I am not writing the things that I think will go viral or resonate with the mainstream.”
-som
... See more“Instead of finding the product through discovery and iteration the goal is to reverse engineer the vision,” he explains. “If you take an incremental, discovery-led approach, then you might find yourself with product-market fit in a local maximum, building a company that you don’t want to lead.”
Matt Walton • Case study: Sana's vision
work from the vision backwards
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson