Forest Linden
@forestlinden
Eternal learner, rabbit holer, curator, and synthesizer. Father, husband, my dog's human, and wilderness wanderer. I write only when I have something worth saying and try to help people through my writing.
Forest Linden
The status signal is circular: you can afford to be selectively online because you have capital, and being selectively online signals you have capital. The rest of us are still grinding for algorithmic visibility because we don’t have another choice.
Eugene Healey • Post-Luxury Status Symbol #1: Connected Privacy
"Don't ignore the problem, but keep it light. Take action with a smile. Adding tension won't solve your troubles faster.
Even when the problem is hard, it doesn't need to harden you. Unknot yourself. Body loose, head clear, and then take the first step.
Be happy in the doing."
Even when the problem is hard, it doesn't need to harden you. Unknot yourself. Body loose, head clear, and then take the first step.
Be happy in the doing."
... See more“This matters because Dragon work begins the same way treasure hunts do: with curiosity.
If you don’t know which dragon you’re meant to fight, look for the themes you keep orbiting when no one is watching. The obsessions that recur. The questions that won’t die. The paragraphs you re-read. The problems you keep trying to solve from different angles.
Design is the successive application of constraints until only a unique product is left.
-Donald Norman, The Design of Everyday Things.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
— Pablo Picasso
“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life."
-Hunter S. Thompson 🤌
Your purpose is in your pain.
-Unknown