mind wanderings
instead of “building an audience,” build a world. build a digital garden-ecosystem, that exists… first and primarily, for itself. a world that doesn’t need likes, traffic, subscribers, or clicks… in order to validate its existence.
build a world that the RIGHT people… your kindred people… will discover, will gravitate towards, and fall in love
... See morei disagree deeply with the premise that web interfaces are 'spaces' or 'land' or 'architecture'
websites are absolutely not places or architecture, they are temporary bodies — interfaces are limbs and sensory organs
I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses. To sit alone without any electric light is curiously... See more
libraries are better than bookshops because everything is already yours. you can test it all. choice is easy. there’s no question of worth or if you want to be responsible for another physical thing. take the book out and hang out with it for a few weeks. no sweat if it’s dull to you. it’s yours if you want it again. libraries make us more free to
... See moreon sublime.app, you can go quite some time without seeing someone's actual writing. like you can scroll and see images or links or articles or things they found interesting, but you don't get a sense for how they write or any acute personal articulation until you stumble across an original note they wrote along with card or a description for a
... See more[wrote when i had no internet to access sublime]
Nostalgia gets a bad rap. It is often characterized as an unproductive fixation on an idealized past, one that prevents people from living in the present and planning for the future.
In reality, though, nostalgia helps people thrive in the present and build a better future.
IT'S SPELLED BEAUTIFUL, NOT INTERESTING
i think the worst thing that can be said about a work is that it is interesting. i don’t mean in any sarcastic or demeaning or sardonic manner either. i mean interesting, sincerely stated. i’ve only ever wanted to make beautiful work and to hear that a work is interesting means to me that the work is not
... See morei am lying on freshly changed hotel bed sheets and i’m listening to raindrops outside.
what loneliness feels like?
(found some descriptions on reddit)
• “It feels like waiting for something but it never comes”
• “It feels like you are yearning for someone. Like you are waiting and waiting for them but they don’t come”
• “feels like that empty heavy
... See morewe went to nice cafe near the village this afternoon.
i saw a little kid holding a bundle of leaves in his right hand. he was full of joy, probably from holding his little treasure.
i was looking at him with a warm joyful feeling on my chest. isn’t it beautiful how a child is capable of being happy from small - but not really small things?
they are
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