Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
What defines inspiration is the quality and quantity of the download. At a speed so instantaneous, it seems impossible to process.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
- we prefer it half-working.
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What childish pranks! Is this what makes us knit our brows? Is this why we let our beards grow long? Are we pale and earnest in our teaching of this?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca • Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
The hack condescends to his audience. He thinks he’s superior to them. The truth is, he’s scared to death of them or, more accurately, scared of being authentic in front of them, scared of writing what he really feels or believes, what he himself thinks is interesting. He’s afraid it won’t sell. So he tries to anticipate what the market (a telling
... See moreSteven Pressfield • The War of Art
The pain of being human is that we're all angels imprisoned in vessels of flesh.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
On the internet, real laughter calls for a representation that hasn’t become trite through overuse. In my survey of 2017, people favored the ever-increasing repetition in “hahahaha” or expanded, ad hoc phrases such as “I actually just spat water on my keyboard from laughing.” But, by necessity, the way we express genuine laughter keeps changing.
Gretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
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