Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Committed to reducing the social inequalities and loosening the traditional disciplinary boundaries that subtend the academy, we aim to facilitate freedom for everyone’s curiosity to pursue seemingly incommensurable ideas and applications.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
focuses on concrete mechanisms for community control, is linked to a disability justice analysis, and explicitly attends to the distribution of design’s benefits and burdens according to the matrix of domination.
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
psychologist Edwin Hollander called idiosyncrasy credits—the latitude to deviate from the group’s expectations. Idiosyncrasy credits accrue through respect, not rank: they’re based on contributions.
Adam Grant • Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
David Brooks • The Relationalist Manifesto
Lifting people up based on personality replicates the dynamics of power and hierarchy that movements claim to be dismantling.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Your versatility and adaptability––key traits in the age of AI––increase in direct proportion to the range of your skills.
Valerie Capers Workman • Quantum Progression: The Art & Science of Career Advancement in the Age of A.I.
The principal role of any worldly teacher is to guide you to the teacher within.