The Forest
Towards a new story of business
The Forest
you think you want thousands of followers but what you really want is five mutuals with good reply game and thousands of followers
RandomSprint • Tweet
it is actually much, much easier to gain engagement, online and irl, by complaining about something, and bonding with others who also hate the thing, than by creatively adding value
nihilism disrespecter • Tweet
this is true, but it comes with the downstream risk of entombing yourself in a social scene fueled by negativity, and potentially becoming economically dependent on it. hard to imagine anything more corrosive to the soul in the long run tbh
most companies see their potential customers as weak, naive, and prone to addiction.
what would the world look like if companies spoke to our highest values rather than looking to make a quick profit off our base instincts...
what would the world look like if companies spoke to our highest values rather than looking to make a quick profit off our base instincts...
Jim Fanara • Tweet
Social media is for me to find kickass thoughtful people that get something from my writing.
It is not to participate in an info war in your head or to please a mass media audience. I’m not trying to “convert” skeptics of alternative paths either.
It is not to participate in an info war in your head or to please a mass media audience. I’m not trying to “convert” skeptics of alternative paths either.
Paul Millerd • Tweet
Although many have tried many times, it is not really possible to command scenius into being. Every start up company, or university would like their offices to be an example of scenius. The number of cities in the world hoping to recreate the scenius of Silicon Valley is endless, but very few have achieved anything close. Innumerable art scenes
... See moreKevin Kelly • Scenius, or Communal Genius
“Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself…. His task was to discover his own destiny — not an arbitrary one — and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own
... See moreVisa’s founding CEO Dee Hock had a realization. He saw clearly that it was “beyond the power of reason to design an organization” capable of coordinating a global network of financial transactions of the sort that had started to develop.7 Yet, he also knew that nature regularly achieves just that. Why, he wondered, couldn’t “a human organization
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