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- "Artifacts of humanity" in creative work — in the form of dust, mistakes, and deliberate strokes that flex human engagement — will showcase the human labor spent making a creation. Such artifacts of humanity, alongside Content Credentials that factually articulate how a piece of work was made, will add meaning and scarcity to the work in the eyes o... See more
from The Law of Displacement Speed & Leveraging Artifacts of Humanity
the process is the point
- Sublime is a personal knowledge management tool crafted with soul. I've been allowing myself to digitally hoard all the beautiful words and insightful advice I come across online. Everything you save in Sublime becomes a card, and these cards can be organized into collections. There's also a communal aspect to Sublime; you can follow other users an... See more
from Second Brain/Attention/Find Your Books
how do you describe Sublime at the dinner table?
via Claudia Dawson at Recomendo
- I call my grandma every day and try to wear sunscreen.
from Peyton Klein
a snippet from the about page of Sublime’s very first and lovely intern
- "Given the unique capabilities of this team, how can we have a maximum positive impact on the customer?"
from Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
- Impact over refinement
When building something, focus on truly creating an impact before releasing and refining it.
Then, consider focusing on other impactful work before refining your prior releases.
Here is a simple test to see if you're building something impactful: Can you write a blog post about what you're releasing and how it will change your ... See morefrom Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
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Making work easier. This is the problem. So obsessed with getting to the answer, completing the project, producing a result which are all valid things, but not where the richness of the human experience lies.from Jerry Seinfeld's Speech At Duke's 2024 Commencement (Transcript)
- Eventually, that gesture became one of our steps of service. The host would ask guests, “How’d you get here tonight?” If they responded, “Oh, we drove,” he’d follow up with, “Cool” Where’d you park?” If they told him they were by a meter on the street, he asked which car was theirs so one of us could run out and drop a couple of quarters into the b... See more
via Unreasonable Hospitality
going the extra mile might not make sense from a prioritization perspective but are the things that, over time, can make the aggregate userbase much happier in a "warm and fuzzy" way that transcends NPS
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The idea of having this giant graph where all your data is hyperlinked is cute, but in practice, it’s completely unnecessary. Things live in separate apps just fine. How often, truly, do you find yourself wanting to link a task in your todo list app to a file in Dropbox?from Unbundling Tools for Thought by Fernando Borretti
the things that make you go “whoa” should not live alongside your to-do list or your kids health insurance info
- The opposite of communion is also useful to me. When I am with others, when I read books, when I look at Twitter—I feel like a dam filling with water, with potential energy. But it is usually not until I spend a long time alone in my head that it turns into kinetic energy.
from On Having More Interesting Ideas