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
“Innovative environments are better at helping their inhabitants explore the adjacent possible, because they expose a wide and diverse sample of spare parts - mechanical or conceptual - and they encourage novel ways of recombining those parts.
-from “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
Build the thing you wish existed.
—Source unknown
The more digitized, online, and optimized our lives become, the stronger will be the pull in many people for meaningful, offline, deep, connective, in-person experiences with other people.
-slow hunch to keep thinking on.
“Fall in love with problems rather than solutions.”
-from ‘Non-Obvious Thinking’ by Rohit Barghava and Ben DuPont
Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror
sariazout.mirror.xyzsariazout.mirror.xyzMost 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
What man actually needs is not some tension-less state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
Maria Popova • How to Find Fulfilling Work
from Viktor Frankl
... See moreThere is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.
—Arthur Miller