making sublime
a collection of thoughts, musings, and ideas that inspire sublime
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making sublime
make things people use > things people consume
I think all social networks start off as a utility and blossom into social networks long term, and that’s because they earn the right to be a social network, not because they start as a social network. That’s kind of where I think we are, is this utility phase where we’re trying to be as good as possible for our beginning users and we’re going to
... See moreBen Thompson • An Interview with Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger About Artifact
With so many search engines now providing answers to questions, I’m thinking about how Sublime fits into this scene, and here’s what I came up with:
Not all questions seek answers; some seek journeys.
Typing a question on Sublime and turning on smart search feels like the beginning of a journey, not the end.
I wonder if there’s a counter-positioning
... See moremy first workshop on how I build my library
The web has an almost infinite capacity for storage and memory yet its prevailing use is an acceleration of ephemerality. The reasons for this are complex to say the least (of which financial short term gain is probably the most prevalent). But this doesn’t mean the tendency can’t be resisted. Perhaps books as well as their online siblings could be... See more
Folkert Gorter • Clippings by Folkert Gorter
this. creating corners of the Internet not necessarily aimed at public consumption but that still leave the door open for serendipity.
There is a big difference between the existence of knowledge in some other place and its availability to the right people in the right place at the right time. The crux of the matter is knowing how to integrate and organize fragmented, scattered and thinly spread knowledge.
-Dominique Foray The Economics of Knowledge