Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Here are the 8 pillars of modern education I developed with @fortelabs.
We use this system to teach people how to write, organize their ideas, and become citizens of the Internet.
If you serve as a mechanical slave to mass media and online algorithms, you’ll end up with intellectual diabetes. To find quality information, you have to rebel against the incentives of mass media and the algorithms that threaten its business model.Make no mistake. For the conscious news consumer, there has never been a better time to be alive. Th... See more
David Perell • The Paradox of Abundance - David Perell
Garry Tan isn't just the CEO of Y Combinator.
He's also a passionate writer, has a YouTube channel with 251,000 subscribers, and once turned a $300k investment into $2 billion.
Here are 10 of his best ideas:
1. How to write a good YC application: Teach the reader something… Show more
“Sort by recency” is the Internet’s default setting. We’re stuck in an endless cycle of ephemeral content consumption. On the Internet, even though we’re just a click away from the greatest authors of all time, from Plato to Tolstoy, we
default to novelty instead of timelessness.
Elon, Zuckerberg, and all the smartest founders are building their own media arms, going direct and routing around legacy media corporations. Doing so is now a core competency. A CEO or a founder who does not build direct distribution is not doing it right. It’s like a company not building a website.
Eric Jorgenson • The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future
For most of history, humanity’s challenge was how to acquire scarce information. There was hardly any good information to be found anywhere. It was locked up in difficult-to-reproduce manuscripts or stuck in the heads of scholars. Access to information was limited, but that wasn’t a problem for most people. Their lives and livelihoods didn’t requir
... See moreTiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Jacob McHangama: Future generations will marvel at the new perspectives, voices, and knowledge that have come to light in the digital era and simply weren’t possible (or deemed desirable) in the age of analog. Where does all this leave expertise? Expertise remains crucial to knowledge production, but it must reflect genuine excellence in a given fi... See more
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
“I love ideas. I’m desperate; I have this yearning, hunger, and thirst for new ideas —new ways of looking at the world. But until I started writing, I wasn’t able to meet people who I could share that with.” – David Perell