Making Sublime
a collection of thoughts, musings, and ideas that inspire sublime
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Making Sublime
Making the Best Tool vs Capturing Users’ Time
KG • Letter #113: Allen Zhang (2019)
What the catalogers provide is different than traditional press coverage or financial investment. They are dealers of agency. Through a combination of tools, information, and imagination they help draw a map around new communities.
If you ask them to describe what they do, you’ll get a meandering answer. As Brand says: “I find things and found thin... See more
If you ask them to describe what they do, you’ll get a meandering answer. As Brand says: “I find things and found thin... See more
David Lang • The Catalogers
Cataloging and organizing the world is a deeply human endeavor. Before we can unify ideas together, or provide some sort of large conceptual framework, we need to at least have gathered and organized the facts and data. Creating a catalog or a list involves frameworks and organization, but it is also at peace with the grab-bag and the miscellaneous. It is a means for creating order while still being wary of too much order—or at least comfortable sitting with a bit of a mess.
consists almost entirely of individuals pursuing their own interests, refining those interests, and letting those interests lead to more interests through connections with others
Charles Broskoski • Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
we'll need a place to get grounded when AI agents take over. a place we can go to for pure humanity. getting grounded with a sea of human thoughts and ideas will feel like a vacation.
Quality is so rare generally that people are often surprised by it.
Quality rarely happens as an accident, it usually means someone is willing to go further building something that necessarily. At least, someone has to be motivated and allowed to do it, not forced to solely focus on some measurements.
Quality, brand and culture are some of those inta... See more
Quality rarely happens as an accident, it usually means someone is willing to go further building something that necessarily. At least, someone has to be motivated and allowed to do it, not forced to solely focus on some measurements.
Quality, brand and culture are some of those inta... See more
Karri Saarinen • Tweet
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Small minds discuss people
Average minds discuss events
Great minds discuss ideas
I'm thinking about how the design of social networks pulls us towards the small/average - Instagram is centered on photos of the self, Twitter around discussing news/facts of the day.
I want a space for ideas.
Every time I fail a spaced repetition review for a card which I remember thinking was almost too trivial to write down, I become more convinced that everything I read without making cards for is a waste of time.
The next (and honestly current) phase of social media needs a better title. The internet is best for things related to curiosity, exploration, discovery, and expression. We need its title to better reflect + subconsciously instill that for users
Yes, these platforms are… Show more