Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
“Stock and flow” is an economic concept that writer Robin Sloan has adapted into a metaphor for media: “Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that remind people you exist. Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is tod
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This passage from Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From, which is discussing Darwin’s use of keeping a commonplace book (a practice I have always loved myself) as a vital part of where his most important ideas came from, just jumped off the page at me:
“The great minds of the period —Milton, Bacon, Locke were zealous believers in the memory-en
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received over email:
A personal search engine. A personal digital collection. A social media platform. A knowledge management platform. A digital playground. A second brain. The Pinterest of ideas. A living digital library. A bookmarking tool.
A boutique search engine. Sublime to me is not any of those things, it is not another platform, another cha
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Substack for volcano brains (could be a neat video).
Thinking of your site as a full & adaptable encapsulation of yourself.
The concept of “soft publishing” and “self curating.”
The technicals: sections, tags, home page design.