making sublime
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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.
Cory Doctorow • The Memex Method
“I dream of a day where I walk down the street & hear people talk about morality, sustainability & philosophy instead of the Kardashians.”
– Keanu Reeves
2024 Memo
Toolhouse's 2024 memo outlines their mission to develop a personal product generator that empowers users to create custom, personalized 3D objects through the integration of AI and agile production methods.
toolhouse.buildBeautiful memo bridging the physical and digital worlds in service of the future of product design, personalization, and people’s agency around their experiences. By Toolhouse (Joe, OEM care).
Highlights:
An engine to help you build first person products — products whose utility is specific to you, and shaped with an imprint of your expression.
The finest products are custom, and the ability to produce custom products should be made as accessible as possible. Custom and accessible don’t need to be mutually exclusive.
As the material world grows to reflect the agility of software, products will become much more malleable.
As the technology matures, the scale of applications will grow to encompass larger systems of interchangeable parts. With the ability to generate variations for any product.
The goal throughout is the same: leverage machine intelligence to lower the ceiling of production so users can easily produce exceptionally personal products.
Principles:
Physical imagination: materialize ideas to transcend the digital/virtual realm with real world feedback.
Creative practicality: balance expression with real-world utility. Make imagination useful.
Play and accessibility: give users agency to shape their world by making the production process easily understandable and fun to use.
Dynamic personalization: a product is a living entity, capable of continuous improvements and adaptations in response to the user's evolving needs. Make the system capable to respond uniquely to individual preferences and requirements. If you build what you use, you learn to build better.
Also reminded me of Scott Belsky’s post on personalization.
delightful minimalism
I have thousands of photos of my children but few that I’ve set aside to revisit. I have records of virtually every text I’ve sent since I was in college but no idea how to find the ones that meant something. I spent years blasting my thoughts to millions of people on X and Facebook even as I fell behind on correspondence with dear friends. I have... See more
Ezra Klein • Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.
A garden is not an object, but a process
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.comA Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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