On using Sublime
concepts for using this magic magically
On using Sublime
Nietzsche burned early drafts. Michelangelo destroyed sketches. Leonardo left thousands of pages unfinished. The act of deletion is not a failure of recordkeeping. It is a reassertion of agency.
In design, we speak of subtraction as refinement. A sculptor chips away everything that is not the figure. A musician cuts a line that clutters the melody. ... See more
In design, we speak of subtraction as refinement. A sculptor chips away everything that is not the figure. A musician cuts a line that clutters the melody. ... See more
Joan Westenberg • I Deleted My Second Brain
aka what we refer to as ‘natural selection’, whereby reality is constantly deleting, revising, evloving, at the foaming edge of becomingness; no Hero’s journey of striving to Be The Best Self, just a love-driven exploration of what can be possible, to know ourself in every way, distilled by the pain and joy of existing; n’er static, (by definition it cannot be);
Merlin Donald, in his theory of cognitive evolution, argues that human intelligence emerged not from static memory storage but from external symbolic representation : tools like language, gesture, and writing that allowed us to rehearse, share, and restructure thought. Culture became a collective memory system - not to archive knowledge, but to kee... See more
Joan Westenberg • I Deleted My Second Brain
The Hope Axis #28 Sari Azout: The Awe of the Sublime
youtu.beSari on collecting the hunches into a glorious mess to then stare at it (and share it: private, then collab then public if desired/relevant) which ferments and distills, offers a tangible way to see patterns, inspire ideas and self reflect; or I’d muse as to access the imaginal (see here) via more doorways not visible in our current light spectrum
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