making sublime

The availability of a deep, digital, searchable, published and public archive of my thoughts turns habits that would otherwise be time-wasters — or even harmful — into something valuable.

In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis ) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation.

“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.”

Introducing Podcast Magic: the simplest way to capture insights from podcasts.

How it works?

1. Screenshot a moment when you hear something you love (works from the podcast player or lock screen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts)

2. Email it to podcastmagic@sublime.app

3. We email you back a transcript + a video clip within 30 seconds.

4. Bonus: If you use the same

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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that

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