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.
Presentation for Betawork's THINK Camp Demo Day
youtube.coma presentation I delivered at Betaworks, when we first introduced Sublime
When I say “I don’t know where everyone went,” I know everyone’s out there surfing the web , of course, but it feels like it’s a different place now. When the algorithms are determining everything we should be seeing, it’s a much less personal internet. The “For You” pages of the world are right, I am interested in that content, but I’m not seeing... See more
I miss human curation
Taking notes, I’ve come to realize, is a form of collecting. I’ve never been interested in collecting physical things, but when it comes to beautiful literary quotes, I have thousands of notebook entries.
Jillian Hess • Alfred Kinsey's Notes on Americans' Sex-Lives
—Klee
Austin Kleon • 100 quotes that helped me write
There are so many more people we haven’t met yet, ideas we’ve never imagined, philosophical framings that we have yet to stumble upon. Part of our lifework is to find them. Not only through carefully planned research projects, but also by way of random discoveries—those moments we didn’t see coming, and didn’t know we were looking for.
I was talking to a friend about why we decided to invite only paying believers to the Sublime private beta. My answer is that charging early for a product creates high expectations, and in aspiring to meet those expectations, we are held accountable to deliver a product you love and trust. My answer is that growing Sublime the right way is more... See more