Making Sublime
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Making Sublime
Robert Greene On The Concept Of "The Sublime"
youtube.comhumans are social animals, and we try to keep ourselves inside a kind of circle and mentally inhabit an enclosed space.
well, the sublime is what lies just outside that circle. other ideas about the world. other ways of thinking, other ways of feeling. and it’s transformative.
because humans don't naturally like limits. when your mother tells you, don't do that, that's exactly what you want to do.
the word sublime, from the Latin means up to the threshold. up to the threshold of a door. and looking through that door on the other side is a sublime experience. so when you take a hike and you're feeling like a sense of awe at everything that you're seeing, and you're feeling your heart beating and you're feeling this rush of adrenaline, you're so excited, you're experiencing a sublime emotion. and that sublime emotion is a kind of an expansiveness as opposed to the closed spirit that we normally have.
and it's liberating and it's exciting.
we create our own reality. we have imaginations. we can imagine new kinds of political structures. we can imagine new kinds of social ways of interacting. we can create instead of just passively consuming what other people give us.
The biases of Google and Facebook, whether algorithmic, datainduced, commercial or political dictate what version of the worldwe get to see. Reality becomes what the models we are fed depictit to be [24]. And a reality defined by Google’s search rankingalgorithm, is one that does not and cannot capture the intricaciesand variety of human knowledge ... See more
Brave • GOGGLES: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web Brave Search Team
if you have a garden and a library you have everything you need.
-cicero
A knowledge base that looked for new connections within itself would be less of a memory system, as notes conventionally are, and become more of a generative tool. Generative tools are exciting because they contain real infinites that invite endless play and exploration.
Linus Lee • Knowledge tools, finite and infinite | thesephist.com
A lot of the work in building Sublime has been, what do I want from the web? And personally, I want to follow my curiosity wherever it leads . Without sifting through mountains of clickbait and SEO and content designed to feed an algorithm, I want to mindfully collect the pieces of the internet that resonate with me. And I want to do this in a spac... See more
Josh Kramer • 0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ a Platform With No Likes, No Follower Count, and No Comments
I have been keeping both physical and digital commonplace books for over five years.
The last couple of years, my commonplace book has been entirely digital.
This is my process for keeping a commonplace book in @obsdmd from start to finish.
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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.
this is a very Sublime way of building a sustainable product - I might just do it
Presentation for Betawork's THINK Camp Demo Day
youtube.coma presentation I delivered at Betaworks, when we first introduced Sublime
Something to try the next time you’re considering a product or a service: spend a little time thinking about the motive behind it. It’s something that’s easy to skip entirely, especially when we’re busy evaluating a thing by its far more obvious and surface-level criteria. But motive is really important, and I think it can be an effective filter fo... See more
Neatnik Notes · Motive as a filter
my motive is simple: build the tool and community I wish I had. build something that is meaningful for the people it serves and allows my team and I to make a good living.