Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Everyone in our team has developed a habit of ensuring every feature and every service has a meaning or a dream behind it. If a feature is made for just gaining traffic, and it doesn’t provide value to users, then it’ll have problems, it won’t last. We think about the meaning behind every detail of everything we do. This is a reason we’ve been able... See more
Tencent • Article
To do our best creative thinking, we need tools that seamlessly support both modes. We should be able to capture ideas effortlessly in the moment, then organize them with purpose when the time is right. This balance between seamless capture and intentionality is essential for supporting creativity.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
The DAM Book; Digital Asset Management for Photographers by Peter Krogh.
Jordan Babeon • Photo Organizing Made Easy: Going from Overwhelmed to Overjoyed
David Rudnick on his creative strategies and insistence on original work: "My struggle is not to maintain authorship. I think authorship's presence is paradoxical in design. Design to me is a synthesis of the message that must be shaped and the audience that must receive it. If one starts with an analysis of both message and audience, then... See more
Toby Shorin • Report: The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics
Capturing notes without an effective way to organize and retrieve them only leads to more overwhelm.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Collapse the talent stack every chance you get.
As I reflect on the teams I’ve led and hundreds of start-ups I’ve worked with, there is a consistent unfair competitive advantage i’ve witnessed when the talent stack was collapsed - when the lead designer was also the product leader, when the front-end engineer was also... See more
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