The Forest
Towards a new story of business
The Forest
Successful platforms do not just discover what consumers want — they produce the consumers and the forms of consumer desire that they need.
ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
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More holy work is found in business than in churches.
Clint Watson • Tweet
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a deep generalist is someone who discovers new niches by following their curiosity with extreme faith, and once the newly found niche is understood and its complexity exhausted, in a meta-systematic fashion, it’s time for them to move on
hermit the cat • Tweet
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If algorithms delve into every corner of our lives until nothing inexplicable remains, the loss will be tremendous.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
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“You must understand the whole of life, not just one part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, why you must sing, dance and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
—Krishnamurti
—Krishnamurti
Steve Schlafman • Tweet
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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
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Pretty much every marketing tactic is built around treating people as a means to some end (making money). In fact, Kant struggled much of his life with the ethical implications of capitalism and wealth inequality. He believed that it was impossible for anyone to amass a fortune without some degree of manipulation or coercion along the way. Therefor
... See moremarkmanson.net • The One Rule for Life
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Never trust an influencer without a decent reply game
Tyler Alterman • Tweet
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