making sublime
a collection of thoughts, musings, and ideas that inspire sublime
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making sublime
We will not make any changes that will damage the aesthetics of our product.
KG • Letter #113: Allen Zhang (2019)
NON NEGOTIABLES
Of the place
Less is more
Vibrant collaboration
No repeat ingredients
Consolidation + speed
Confidence + competence
In + out service
Pursuit of excellence
Details matter
Know your shit!
FOCUS
Service
Time
Not about you
Perfect means perfect
No excuses
Respect tradition
Push boundaries
Clean as you go
Break down boxes
Shirts perfectly pressed
Personal
The Bear, Season 3
As Deleuze and Guattari put it in What Is Philosophy , “Nothing is more distressing than a thought that escapes itself, than ideas that fly off, that disappear hardly formed, already eroded by forgetfulness or precipitated into others that we no longer master.”
Cortney Cassidy • A soft manifesto
Making the Best Tool vs Capturing Users’ Time
KG • Letter #113: Allen Zhang (2019)
capture the work and the work that made the work.
Yancey Strickler • What if You Gave Yourself the Gift of Inner Acceptance?
the process, not just the destination
From Lily Chambers:
I genuinely do not care if AI tools make me more productive.
I am tired of seeing, "increased productivity" as a selling point. I do not want to be valued for my productivity. I do not want "more" of anything related to work.
I like doing things meticulously. I like using my hands. I like manipulating data that an LLM could
... See moreOur goal is to get rid of as many pixels as possible, to leave you with the most essential and delightful ones
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.