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
“What we do for ourselves dies with us when we leave this planet. What we do for other people can live on forever.” ~Sir Ken Robinson
In other words, the hard part isn’t writing, or coding, or speaking.
It’s determining what to write, what to code, and what to say.
It’s determining what to write, what to code, and what to say.
Vita Benes
Most times, the best way to create value is to double down on the domain-specific insights you’ve collected over your entire career.
—Nikita Bier
“The most difficult part of positioning is selecting that one specific concept to hang your hat on. Yet you must, if you want to cut through the prospect's wall of indifference.”
-Al Ries
Solve a problem you have yourself, then sell the solution.
~Dan Koe
Source: https://youtu.be/GmHQGVD7KRQ?si=S27LWzhIApJ8iEzW
My generic career advice for young people is that if at all possible, you should aim to work on something that no one has a word for. Spend your energies where we don’t have a name for what you are doing, where it takes a while to explain to your mother what it is you do. When you are ahead of language, that means you are in a spot where it is mor
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“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Aside from the distracting patriarchal pronoun, this is a great axiom to remember.
If you want to become obscenely wealthy, just sell something that people don’t stop buying.
-Alex Hormozi