Matt Roberts

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[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Today, after seven years of work, The Law of the Sublime is out in the world.

When I started this book, I had an ambitious plan. I would go down the Amazon, find chimpanzees in the wilds of Africa, and cross the Gobi Desert, then write about those experiences of awe.

Then, on a hot August afternoon in 2018, I had a stroke while driving in Los Angeles. A blood clot cut off oxygen to my brain, and within seconds I lost consciousness. When I woke up in the hospital, I learned how close I had come to the point of no return. My left hand was frozen into a claw, and I could barely feel my left leg, but something strange happened.

On the ambulance ride home, I looked out at the people on the street, and for a moment I felt I could be inside their bodies and hear their thoughts. It was marvelous and weird, and I knew it was time to write this book.

I couldn't type, so I wrote every page by hand, dictated it, printed it out, and edited it all over again. I couldn't take the long hikes that had carried me through my six previous books. Then one afternoon I woke from a nap in my backyard to find a grasshopper inches from my face, and I understood that this small backyard would have to be my Amazon jungle. The lizards, the hummingbirds, the insects became my teachers.

My limits turned out to be a blessing. They forced me to find the Sublime in the simplest things, and that is what this book is about.

Most of us live inside a circle: an everyday consciousness shaped by culture, convention, and, more and more, technology. That circle keeps shrinking, and we grow bored and restless. Just outside it is the Sublime, a realm that is frightening and exciting at once, pulling us out of our comfort zones and opening us to a much wider reality. The book maps 12 points outside that circle, and each one is a different face of the Sublime.

Inside, you'll find stories of near-death encounters, astonishing discoveries, and radical changes of consciousness, along with exercises and meditations so you can feel the Sublime yourself, not just read about it.

The Sublime doesn't require travel or exotic adventures. It only requires a new pair of eyes for the reality all around you.

​The Law of the Sublime is available now in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook.

Thank you for your support of my work. I hope you enjoy reading this book, and I look forward to hearing your feedback.

With gratitude,
Robert Greene

[Matt Roberts @MulticastMatt]

@sheynamakes @andrebttx Radical!

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@major2571 @dougboneparth Fee fee FTW!

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@SteveCase Next up, QuantumLink IPO? :) thanks so much for Q-Link! #IQDoYou

[Mike Maples, Jr @m2jr]

The passing of @JoshuaBaer is really hard for me to accept.

There are lots of ways to succeed. Many do it by riding the right Rocketship at the right time. Don’t get me wrong…the world benefits from their talents and they deserve their success.

But a rare few don’t ride the wave. They make the wave happen from nothing with their spirit and force of will and fundamental goodness. They make things happen that would have never happened otherwise. Josh Baer was this latter type.

One of my favorite movie quotes is “Heroes get remembered but legends never die.” I think that quote describes this notion. Sometimes you do something that transcends being successful. Sometimes you change the outcome in a way that makes you singular.

I will miss you, Josh. Thanks for being a legendary businessperson and human. My thoughts are with Amy and your family.

[Matt Roberts @MulticastMatt]

@captainK @cmsinvests Technically correct. The best kind of correct!

[Rudransh Shrivastava @rudranshstwt]

It's simple

[Matt Roberts @MulticastMatt]

@BeginnerAverage @lippyent Entertainment center made out of my college loft (4x4s and 2x6 boards and bolts)

[Matt Roberts @MulticastMatt]

@jeffbarr @brooke_jamieson “great gag” ;)

[Matt Roberts @MulticastMatt]

@Scobleizer @tidelift It was acquired by Sonar, but @dff and @havocp were making a strong go of making open source both a strong business model and worth it (financially) for maintainers, builders, and a thriving OSS community with less risk. I hope it comes back.

[Tanay Padhi @tanaypadhi]

how did Allbirds pivot to AI compute hardware before the shoe company literally called ASICS

[Mike Julian @mikejulian]

We're hiring a Head of Engineering at @DuckbillHQ.

We think the entire cloud cost management industry is solving the wrong problem. While everyone else is building tools for making bills smaller for startups, we're building a data platform for making them more predictable and less complex across an entire enterprise.

Given we're early days, this is a builder role. You'll be in the code every day and setting the pace for the team. You'll be leading the team on foundational decisions from day one.

The engineering problems are interesting. We're processing hundreds of millions of rows of billing data per customer per month. We're modeling pricing schemes and contract structures for every provider we support. The dimensionality reaches into the thousands of columns when you combine provider billing data with customer data and the datasets hit terabytes easily. The customer needs to not just query this data, but modify it too--faster than a traditional data pipeline allows.

We're ~12 people, based in SF, well-funded through revenue and our investors, and have the kind of customer list and brand awareness most seed-stage companies spend years trying to build.

Feel free to DM me. Job post and more details about our point of view are linked below.

[Matt Roberts @MulticastMatt]

@itscomentarista @babybeginner You win the Internet

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@readswithravi The Sneetches

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@readswithravi Goodnight Moon

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@readswithravi Maintenance of Everything: Part One @stripepress

[Matt Roberts @MulticastMatt]

@stripepress @stewartbrand Excellent book—halfway through!

[Mike Maples, Jr @m2jr]

The Fortune 500 thinks about AI through the lens of efficiency and effectiveness: What they should be thinking about is epistemology.