Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Do we need to be constantly inundated with a firehose of content tuned to our lowest, base desires?
These days, you don't go out and find cool stuff. You get served whatever pablum the platforms think you'll consume.
We need more mess, more friction.
Open protocols like RSS, email, and the web give us the foundation for being more mindful:
Having a... See more
These days, you don't go out and find cool stuff. You get served whatever pablum the platforms think you'll consume.
We need more mess, more friction.
Open protocols like RSS, email, and the web give us the foundation for being more mindful:
Having a... See more
The idea of watering things down for a mainstream audience, I don't think it applies. People want things that are passionate, that are the best version they can be. And often the best version they can be is not for everybody
Rick Rubin • Rick Rubin on Cultivating World-Class Artists (Jay Z, Johnny Cash, etc.), Losing 100+ Pounds, and Breaking Down The Complex (#76)
Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly’s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
The future of the internet that most excites me is also, in many ways, a snapshot of its past. It’s a place where the Neil Gaimans of the world don’t need to feed their thoughts into an engagement engine, but can instead put out a virtual shingle on their own small patch of cyberspace and attract and build a more intimate community of like-minded... See more
Brad Borland • Neil Gaiman's Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet - Cal Newport
Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk:
“You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When... See more
- The MP3—destroyer of the music industry—arrived in 1993. Blogs appeared in 1997, and Blogger, the first