making sublime
a collection of thoughts, musings, and ideas that inspire sublime
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making sublime
Soulseek is a file sharing platform that came out around the same time as Napster and Kazaa, but it’s still around and still has a passionate userbase. One part about its design that’s worth highlighting is that if you search for a song or album and find a person who has that song or album, you could go through their entire shared music folder and... See more
Charles Broskoski • Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” (Plutarch, On Listening to Lectures)
From Notetaking to Neuralink
this is why I love the idea of Sublime delivering just-in-time epiphanies as a north star: the right information, exactly when you need it. our brains are meant for having ideas, not for storing them.
Inspired by Light Phone’s self description:
"Simple devices with quality tools, designed to be used as little as possible".
I have thousands of photos of my children but few that I’ve set aside to revisit. I have records of virtually every text I’ve sent since I was in college but no idea how to find the ones that meant something. I spent years blasting my thoughts to millions of people on X and Facebook even as I fell behind on correspondence with dear friends. I have... See more
Ezra Klein • Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.
this quote by Richard Feynman sums up why I keep a Sublime library. Cards are like tricks. Every now and then you see them with fresh eyes and something clicks and it reminds me why this practice is vital:
"You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind ... Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result,
... See moreThe idea of having this giant graph where all your data is hyperlinked is cute, but in practice, it’s completely unnecessary. Things live in separate apps just fine. How often, truly, do you find yourself wanting to link a task in your todo list app to a file in Dropbox?
Fernando Borretti • Unbundling Tools for Thought
the things that make you go “whoa” should not live alongside your to-do list or your kids health insurance info