making sublime
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making sublime
If you take a bong rip and close your eyes, you can imagine a world where Roam is a new sort of internet. Where people can publish ideas and reference each other’s ideas in deep, interlinked ways. It’d be like a giant public brain, instead of a private second brain.
That certainly would be a network effect.
The only problem is, I’ve seen a lot of... See more
That certainly would be a network effect.
The only problem is, I’ve seen a lot of... See more
Nathan Baschez • Roam’s Road Ahead
solid insight. this is the vision for sublime. for this to work, my view is you have to design it to be a giant public brain from day one, not latch that on afterwards.
Virginia Woolf on her ideal diary:
I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do.”
Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
... See moreThe value of reading, and of writing things down that we read, or hear, cannot be overstated. Two expert guests (who specialize in speech and memory) on the Huberman Lab podcast explained that when we read text or listen to something and then write key aspects/takeaways down by hand- not typing, it engages our motor control centers in ways that... See more
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.twitter.comafter studying in basically every library / study spot in cambridge, I've found that the best study spots are still mom & pop cafes where there is a sense of *life* vs. institutional heaviness. In these life-filled places, I've found that insights come through more easily, esp when I "borrow" from the auric field of PhD students doing psets and... See more
Patricia Moux.comAnd so a lot of the books that I now think of as foundational to how I see the world, to my aesthetic worldview, my ethical worldview, I just found out about because people would post on Reddit or Twitter. I think that is something really special about the internet, that you do not need to be in the right family context, geographic context, social... See more
Jasmine Sun • Article
Surprised there aren’t more Strava for X.
1. Single-player tool with multiplayer social feed
2. The more you use the app, the more likely you are to do the atomic behavior.
3. Doing more of the atomic behavior is actually good for... See more
Dan Romerotwitter.comYES. make it useful in single-player mode, magical in multi-player mode. most social networks have no utility without the network.