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
"You can make anything by writing." — C.S. Lewis
Anu • Writer-Builders
“No argument in the world can ever compare with one dramatic demonstration.”
-Claude Hopkins
Be like a postage stamp: stick to one thing until you get there.
-Josh Billings
If you don’t use your voice, someone will use your silence.
-unknown
Ironically, when we start to get better, we also get sad - because we realize how much we’ve missed out on, how badly certain people treated us, and what the younger version of us actually deserved. Healing requires healthy grieving. There is no way around it.
— Unknown
A phrase that’s been showing up recently is, “no pressure.” It usually comes in a pitch letter of some sort, written by someone who isn’t in a position to exert any pressure.
So why say it?
It’s a bit like, “while supplies last.” And “to be honest…” which is perhaps the most self-negating of the three.
It’s throat-clearing, a word salad designed to... See more
So why say it?
It’s a bit like, “while supplies last.” And “to be honest…” which is perhaps the most self-negating of the three.
It’s throat-clearing, a word salad designed to... See more
"There is freedom in constraints."
- Timothy Keller
I don’t talk about it much but I do work at Google and I just want to contribute, as a small addendum to the wider conversation about AI, and how much it sucks, and how stupid it is, and how if you make garlic oil like it tells you to you will give botulism to your entire family -
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we... See more
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we... See more