There are a bunch of metaphors that you can use to think about your own blog.
It's a public invitation for a conversation. It's a digital garden that you can use to make sense / sense make. It's a note to your future self to see who / where you were at a certain point in time.
i like this framing - there are a bunch of metaphors to think about why you would have a sublime library, which makes it hard to boil it down to any one reason.
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
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.
Remarkably very little overlap between the influencers talking about personal knowledge management and people that have written a great book or won an Emmy or an Oscar or actually done anything that incredible with their knowledge management systems.
The goal is not to collect more information. The goal is to think... See more
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.