Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
- Greatness starts with superb people.
Patricia Ward Biederman • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
Libraries must be seen as a core value.
Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Br... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
The extinction of curiosity stifles our imaginations, paralyzing our ability to author better futures.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Public libraries are often seen as “opportunity institutions,” opening doors to, and for, the disenfranchised.
Shannon Mattern • Library as Infrastructure
When nature finds itself in need of new ideas, it strives to connect, not protect.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Fuller decries specialization as the enemy of synergy and proposes a reframing of culture that could “get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.” At its epicenter he places the value of wide curiosity and generalist knowledge.
The Marginalian • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
Ervin Laszlo in The Chaos Point.