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
“Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” ~Anne Lamott
“Good ideas are not conjured out of thin air; they are built out of a collection of existing parts, the composition of which expands (and occasionally, contracts) over time.”
-“Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
Build the thing you wish existed.
—Source unknown
- my cheesy oversimplification that i do think is true is that ultimately marketing is simply about publicly being in love with the problem-space that you’re operating in. your product, sure, but why did you make the product? because you cared about the problem, right? show us!!
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
—Artur Rubinstein
"You are paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of the problems you solve."
~ Elon Musk
My remix: “The amount of money you make is in direct proportion to the size of the problem you solve.”File this under “people I don’t like but who have said things that feel useful.”
A new idea is a network of cells exploring the adjacent possible of connections that they can make in your mind.
-Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From
Every card you save in your Sublime account is a gift you’re giving to your future self some weeks or years in the future.
“According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.”
~ Leon C. Megginson
I keep thinking about this quote as I sit with all the massive changes happening on the internet as a result of AI, of search and SEO changing drastically, of paid ads not working like they used to, of entire business models not working like they used to, such as selling online courses. Are they only ones who make it through these changes going to be those who embrace dozens and dozens of AI tools and approaches to using them in business?
The Rule of One for copywriting:
You have one reader. One big idea. One promise. And one offer.
Source: unknown person who is no longer alive, probably in advertising and direct response copywriting in the 1920’s.