Sublime
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...I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal, and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many other people.
-Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person (1961)
"I call myself a farmer. Wall Street is flooded with hunters-people who try to go out and find the big game.
They fell it and bring it back, and there's a huge feast and everything is fabulous, and then they look for the next big game.
I plant seeds and then I spend all of my time cultivating them.”
—Thomas Russo" (William Green, Richer, Wiser, Happier)
resonance over scale
Sublime is not:
Sublime is not another note-taking tool to add your grocery list or to store your kids health insurance info – the ideas that move you should not live alongside the daily minutia.
Sublime is not a read it later tool that becomes a graveyard of junk.
Sublime is not a social network – there’s no likes, no comments, no vanity metrics.
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A special target of examination ought to be how societies differ in making room for pauses in the midst of life, for it is during such pauses that individuals are able to appraise the meaning of what they have undergone.
-Yi-Fu Tuan Life as a Field Trip
our 2022 end of year letter, where the seeds of Sublime were being sowed.
creativity > productivity
- intention > attention