

Sari Azout: The Awe of the Sublime
Jul 28, 2025
01:05:14
The inimitable Sari Azout, founder of the new digital gardening platform Sublime, joins me for a wide-ranging discussion about ideas, digital minimalism, humane tech and building the future with care. Hope you enjoy!
You can read the transcript of this conversation here.
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Show Notes:
(0:01:17) The Philosophy of Ideas
(0:04:42) Avoiding Brain Hijacking and Deepening Your Intentions
(0:11:58) Making People Care
(0:16:45) Observing Digital Shabbat
(0:24:22) Succession as the Art of Giving Back
(0:29:33) Are we all sentenced to Freedom?
(0:37:59) Surprising Ways People Use Sublime
(0:47:53) No AI Leader Gets Us Excited
(0:55:02) Sari's Psychedelic Experience
(1:01:49) Surfacing Ideas and Making Stuff
Books / Resources Mentioned:
- The Disappearance of Rituals; by Byung-Chul Han
- Antimemetics; by Nadia Asparouhova
- The Essays of Venkatesh Rao