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
"Here’s the formula if you want to build a billion-dollar internet company," he said. "Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time...Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps."
Ryan Tate • Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
-Rumi
In other words, clarity doesn’t come before action.
It comes from action.
This isn’t to say the digital won’t remain, or even that it won’t remain the primary medium. Rather, I think there are going to be more efforts to make the digital experience more human, to shift our relationships with it. Some say AI threatens this, I say it only reinforces it: nobody, really, likes AI, and our general distaste for it is going to... See more
I’ve been thinking about the enduring, perhaps increasing currency of personal recommendations (practically artisanal craft now if you think about it!) as well as the value of connoisseurship and curation in a culture where unthinking automation has left us feeling drowned in a deluge of content.
I suspect that’s the core appeal of all the... See more
I suspect that’s the core appeal of all the... See more
well lol i finally got laid off...but on the bright side.......
“In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”
-Kwame Anthony Appiah
Search engines — the window into the web for many people — top their results with pages containing thousands of words of auto-generated nothingness, perfectly optimized for search engine prominence and to pull in money via ads and affiliate links while simultaneously devoid of any useful information.
Social networks have become “the web” for many... See more
Social networks have become “the web” for many... See more
Build the thing you wish existed.
—Source unknown
Design is not what we make.
Design is what we make possible.
Design is what we make possible.
wearecollins.com • Interview: Rehearsing Tomorrow | COLLINS
You don’t want to be in the selling business. You want to be in the reorder business
- John Paul DeJoria