making sublime
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making sublime
We will not make any changes that will damage the aesthetics of our product.
KG • Letter #113: Allen Zhang (2019)
How to Discover Your Own Taste
open.spotify.comTaste is not merely superficial preferences but a fundamental human experience linked to moral judgment and self-discovery.
The internet lacks the patience for difficulty and comprehension, resulting in a poor version of culture compared to what existed before.
Many people desire alternatives to the current internet and are frustrated with the lack of human curation.
“Instead of finding the product through discovery and iteration the goal is to reverse engineer the vision,” he explains. “If you take an incremental, discovery-led approach, then you might find yourself with product-market fit in a local maximum, building a company that you don’t want to lead.”
Matt Walton • Case study: Sana's vision
work from the vision backwards
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The idea that we could have so much community with so little effort was an illusion. We are digitally connected to more people than ever and terribly lonely nevertheless. Closeness requires time, and time has not fallen in cost or risen in quantity.
I do not blame anyone but myself for this. This is not something the corporations did to me. This is something I did to myself. But I am looking now for software that insists I make choices rather than whispers that none are needed. I don’t want my digital life to be one shame closet after another. A new metaphor has taken hold for me: I want it to be a garden I tend, snipping back the weeds and nourishing the plants.
product request: tool that lets you dump many links/articles/sites then it shows you interconnected themes + more related links you haven't yet discovered. does this exist?
@martytwitter.comCreativity 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... See more