making sublime
a collection of thoughts, musings, and ideas that inspire sublime
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making sublime
And so a lot of the books that I now think of as foundational to how I see the world, to my aesthetic worldview, my ethical worldview, I just found out about because people would post on Reddit or Twitter. I think that is something really special about the internet, that you do not need to be in the right family context, geographic context, social... See more
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delightful minimalism
You can’t just collect information. To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you also need a purpose. It can be achieving mastery of a domain, collecting raw material for a project, curating something for someone as an act of generosity, or collecting inspiration for an essay you’ve been wanting to write.
Michael Zinman - “critical mess”
Soulseek is a file sharing platform that came out around the same time as Napster and Kazaa, but it’s still around and still has a passionate userbase. One part about its design that’s worth highlighting is that if you search for a song or album and find a person who has that song or album, you could go through their entire shared music folder and... See more
Charles Broskoski • Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” (Plutarch, On Listening to Lectures)
From Notetaking to Neuralink
this is why I love the idea of Sublime delivering just-in-time epiphanies as a north star: the right information, exactly when you need it. our brains are meant for having ideas, not for storing them.
if you like thinking, it’s important to be around people who also enjoy thinking/ideas, otherwise you have to constantly empty your mind to fill it up with the shared context needed to relate to others.. this often ends up being emptier topics like people, small talk, gossip, etc
Isabel🌻twitter.comThe value of reading, and of writing things down that we read, or hear, cannot be overstated. Two expert guests (who specialize in speech and memory) on the Huberman Lab podcast explained that when we read text or listen to something and then write key aspects/takeaways down by hand- not typing, it engages our motor control centers in ways that... See more
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.twitter.comTaking 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.