The Forest

Towards a new story of business

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

– Jean-Luc Godard

“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”

― Miles Davis

Poetic Outlaws • Tweet

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.

Visa’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

Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline

If you want to pull out the full richness of your being, the place to go is where it’s exciting but hard.

Henrik Karlsson x.com

We imagine the unconscious as something inside us ... But the unconscious can equally well be imagined outside of our bodies, out in the world, like a dark, wild forest through which we roam. There are equal measures of mystery in dreams and wilderness.

— Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft

Thea • Tweet

"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."

-Virginia Woolf

a thesis around plays + theatre in a digital world plays are one of the last forms of media that resist digitization -- not by accident, but by design. a play doesn’t scale. it doesn’t go viral (well, not the real thing. the idea of a play can spread. its songs, its brand, its aesthetics. but the core experience - the... See more

aishwarya 🌱🦋x.com

When the founder of Hasidic Judaism, the great Rabbi Israel Shem Tov, saw misfortune threatening the Jews, it was his custom to go into a certain part of the forest to meditate. There he would light a fire, say a special prayer, and the miracle would be accomplished and the misfortune averted.

Later, when his disciple, the celebrated Maggid of