making sublime
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making sublime
A cool way to bootstrap a cooperative:
package the business plan as a beautiful zine and sell 1,000 copies (doubling as memberships) for $100/ each.
austin robeytwitter.comthis is a very Sublime way of building a sustainable product - I might just do it
What the catalogers provide is different than traditional press coverage or financial investment. They are dealers of agency. Through a combination of tools, information, and imagination they help draw a map around new communities.
If you ask them to describe what they do, you’ll get a meandering answer. As Brand says: “I find things and found... See more
If you ask them to describe what they do, you’ll get a meandering answer. As Brand says: “I find things and found... See more
David Lang • The Catalogers
Cataloging and organizing the world is a deeply human endeavor. Before we can unify ideas together, or provide some sort of large conceptual framework, we need to at least have gathered and organized the facts and data. Creating a catalog or a list involves frameworks and organization, but it is also at peace with the grab-bag and the miscellaneous. It is a means for creating order while still being wary of too much order—or at least comfortable sitting with a bit of a mess.
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.
Taste is not merely superficial preferences but a fundamental human experience linked to moral judgment and self-discovery.
The internet lacks the patience for difficulty and comprehension, resulting in a poor version of culture compared to what existed before.
Many people desire alternatives to the current internet and are frustrated with the lack of human curation.
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
At the same time, as I wander the internet, I wonder where the digital gardens are that will connect me to fellow gardeners more deeply. More often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privately owned online spaces made for visitors to fawn over while a “do not touch” sign looms in view. These private gardens are generative for our
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