Sublime

Though they admire art and intellect, they find themselves living amidst commerce, or at least in that weird hybrid zone where creativity and commerce intersect.

David Brooks, “The Moral Bucket List.” Nir Eyal, Hooked. Anything by Kevin Kelly, most recently The Inevitable

OBJECTIVISM.

People don’t see the world with their eyes; they see it with their entire life.

The idea was to create an elevated environment where people could cultivate delicate sensibilities and higher interests.

Wise people don’t just possess information; they possess a compassionate understanding of other people. They know about life.

In college, you get assigned hard things. You’re taught to look at paintings and think about science in challenging ways. After college, most of us resolve to keep doing this kind of thing, but we’re busy and our brains are tired at the end of the day. Months and years go by. We get caught up in stuff, settle for consuming Twitter and, frankly, jou

“knowing” is also a whole-body experience.

So the people who thrive in this period are the ones who can turn ideas and emotions into products.