making sublime
a collection of thoughts, musings, and ideas that inspire sublime
sari and
making sublime
We don't necessarily need to constantly interact with people “around” us on the web. The sensation of being in the quiet companionship of someone else, like reading next to them in a cafe, is what we're missing. The sense of ambiently sharing space – of being co-present – while engaged in other activities is a staple of shared public spaces that
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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.
I am so, deeply, truly uninterested in reaction (which is why I don’t read the comments on my public Instagram account). But I am so curious about response: the mysterious sacred moments when we are compelled into action (often unwitnessed by others) or invited into new ways of thinking.
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Mari Andrew • A Life Without Instagram
World building is the new web design
Worlds make your brand unforgettable
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we’ve turned everything in life into a giant popularity contest–everything you say, everything you experience, everything you see, and even everything you feel–is a product of a giant worldwide counter of likes and follows. It’s a planet-wide exercise in objective convergence, a giant narcissism amplifier that cynically assumes that competing for... See more
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we’ll look back at this era of social media as the primitiva era where we were naive about how good it could be
a note from a believer:
Sari, I remember that as a kid, I always knew I was different, and wanted to show it. I’d tie my Converse shoelaces in the shape of a star, I’d zig when others zagged, I’d take pride in being Mexican in my mostly White North Carolina small town, and this all showed through in my work. I was Me. And somewhere along the way,
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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.