- Advice: Instead of spending the time and money attending conferences and networking events, share your valuable insights by writing online. This way, the network *comes to you.
File over app
File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.
File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is... See more
food for thought. i largely agree with this and think link rot is a big problem on the Internet. we will need to solve for this on Sublime, by creating a permanent archives of saved pages, or integrating with Wayback Machine... but I also think the vast majority of people care about what you can do for them today, not about the ideology of the founders - which is why so many of the decentralized social networks or privacy focused whatever haven't taken off - the value of being file vs. app first is seen in the future, not today
"Almost no prerequisite to any major invention was invented with that invention in mind." You used that term stepping stones, the things that we combine. You gave the example of vacuum tubes and computers. People working on vacuum tubes weren't thinking about computers, and there's a million examples like this. So I just want to plant that idea out... See more