Sublime

I was talking to a friend about why we decided to invite only paying believers to the Sublime private beta. My answer is that charging early for a product creates high expectations, and in aspiring to meet those expectations, we are held accountable to deliver a product you love and trust. My answer is that growing Sublime the right way is more... See more

You basically just dump anything that is interesting to you and watch how it intelligently intertwines with everyone else’s.

Collections change the organizing function from trying to describe broad topics to tracking the potential use, context, function or world that a card should live in.

In a traditional tagging system, the question is: in which topic should I store this card? On Sublime, the question is: in which context will I want to stumble upon it again?

What we are trying to do influences what becomes salient to us. If you are looking for a friend in a crowd, faces become salient to you, faces that would have otherwise passed you by.

If you are making videos, you will notice patterns in the videos you watch. If you’re not, you can watch a thousand videos and have them pass through your head... See more

A lot of the work in building Sublime has been, what do I want from the web? And personally, I want to follow my curiosity wherever it leads . Without sifting through mountains of clickbait and SEO and content designed to feed an algorithm, I want to mindfully collect the pieces of the internet that resonate with me. And I want to do this in a... See more

Think of the way you organize your library as an artistic endeavor, not just a utilitarian one.

think of your ideas as people / your children. I want my ideas to go hang out with other ideas, I don't want them hanging out in a room full of schedules and todo lists