making sublime

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,

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steve jobs on creative discipline https://t.co/B8P29POrRr

We don't necessarily need to constantly interact with people “around” us on the web. The sensation of being in the quiet companionship of someone else, like reading next to them in a cafe, is what we're missing. The sense of ambiently sharing space – of being co-present – while engaged in other activities is a staple of shared public spaces that

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In Paul Graham’s famous essay Cities and Ambition, there’s this idea that some cities are centers for some type of ambition, and when you come to one of those cities, you can feel the message the city is sending to you. For example, the message that you can feel in New York is “You should be richer,” while Berkeley’s is “You should live better,”... See more

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

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With so many search engines now providing answers to questions, I’m thinking about how Sublime fits into this scene, and here’s what I came up with:

Not all questions seek answers; some seek journeys.

Typing a question on Sublime and turning on smart search feels like the beginning of a journey, not the end.

I wonder if there’s a counter-positioning

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