making sublime
a collection of thoughts, musings, and ideas that inspire sublime
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making sublime
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
This is, I think, at the root of why I like reading private notes so much. There are so few places where we get to be close to other people and see the messy humanity they carry behind the identities they have polished for society life. There are so few places where we can apprentice ourselves to the unspeakable labors of thinking and feeling that... See more
Henrik Karlsson • On the pleasure of reading private notebooks
“Research is a ceremony for building closer relationship with an idea”
-Shawn Wilson
use AI to give users agency instead of stealing their agency.
Jonah Peretti • The Anti-SNARF Manifesto
This is what the internet was always meant to be. A resource for learning. It’s so simple, but we forget.
Too often, we think of notebooks as a way-station: a necessary stop en-route to the perfected, polished work of art. But what if the notebook is the work of art? What if the process of taking notes is the point?