making sublime
a collection of thoughts, musings, and ideas that inspire sublime
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I think all social networks start off as a utility and blossom into social networks long term, and that’s because they earn the right to be a social network, not because they start as a social network. That’s kind of where I think we are, is this utility phase where we’re trying to be as good as possible for our beginning users and we’re going to
... See moreBen Thompson • An Interview with Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger About Artifact
An idea kept private is as good as one you never had.
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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.
Sublime’s battle cry is clear and compelling
Eeeg • Great brands are built on a battle cry
Every now and again, a few of these fragments will stick to each other and nucleate , crystallizing a substantial, synthetic analysis out of all of those bits and pieces I’ve salted into that solution of potential sources of inspiration.
Cory Doctorow • The Memex Method
Apple is fucking up :/ and cringe (writing from an iPhone <3)