Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Static societies survive by effectively eliminating the type of evolution that is unique to memes, namely creative variation intended to meet the holders’ individual preferences.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
examples.” Harold nodded, “You’re making things absolutely clear right from the start.” “Digging up the context is an easy way to speed communications and improve your professional image. It
Tim Burress • The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You
The Marginalian • Pioneering Biochemist Erwin Chargaff on the Poetics of Curiosity, the Crucial Difference Between Understanding and Explanation, and What Makes a Scientist
In this book I ask why the mind “tries” to make sense of a new input. Why is there a natural tendency to organize the fresh input to make it fit among past receptions? The answer that comes from physics is one, and it is general: empowering the individual with speed and clarity of thought, understanding, decision making, and movement on the earth’s
... See moreAdrian Bejan • Time And Beauty: Why Time Flies And Beauty Never Dies
idea was based on glanceability, or what cognitive scientists call preattentive processing.
David Rose • Enchanted Objects: Innovation, Design, and the Future of Technology
Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett,
Limor Shifman • Memes in Digital Culture (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)
“to categorize something is to render it
Dr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop
