making sublime
a collection of thoughts, musings, and ideas that inspire sublime
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making sublime
Look, my commonplace book is easily justified. I write and speak about things for a living. I need this resource. But so do you. You write papers, memos, emails, notes to friends, birthday cards, give advice, have conversations at dinner, console loved ones, tell someone special how you feel about them. All these are opportunities to use the wisdom... See more
Ryan Holiday • How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book”
Newspaper reporters call this a “morgue file”—I like that name even better. Your morgue file is where you keep the dead things that you’ll later reanimate in your work.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like An Artist - a book by Austin Kleon
Cultivate Curiosity
Having the library of Alexandria in our pockets has dulled, rather than heightened, our senses. Despite unprecedented access to information, there is a sluggish incuriosity, a giving of the self to the algorithm that feeds us information, rather than allows us to search for it.
Yet curiosity, at its core, is simple: it is... See more
Having the library of Alexandria in our pockets has dulled, rather than heightened, our senses. Despite unprecedented access to information, there is a sluggish incuriosity, a giving of the self to the algorithm that feeds us information, rather than allows us to search for it.
Yet curiosity, at its core, is simple: it is... See more
Mariam • The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
a framework for research as leisure
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.
Dave Kimtwitter.comi 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.
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“I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now”
Field Notes tagline <3