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
The fundamental message of marketing must change from "we want your money" to "we share your interests".
Jeff Jarvis • WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO
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
Rather than hoping to create a harmonious union between the pursuit of money and values, we might have better luck trying to combine values with talents. This idea comes courtesy of Aristotle, who is attributed with saying, ‘Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.’
What do I wish existed in the world but doesn’t yet exist?
And of the things that appear on that list, can you build any of them?
"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.”
You're alive in inverse proportion to the density of cliches in your writing — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In 1985, Nike held a 24-hour shoe design contest. Nike was struggling. Their stock dropped 50%. They had to lay off people. Adidas, Converse, and Reebok were all selling more shoes. So in a panicked attempt to find creative talent, Nike held a shoe design contest. The winner was a corporate architect named Tinker Hatfield. “Two days after the... See more
“‘Not your best ever’
In order to have a best ever, hearing this is part of the deal.
Each thing is not going to top everything that came before it. Progress is rarely smooth.”
-Seth Godin
... See more“The perfectionist is never satisfied. The perfectionist never says, ‘This is pretty good. I think I’ll just keep going.’ To the perfectionist, there is always room for improvement. The perfectionist calls this humility. In reality, it is egotism. It is pride that makes us want to write a perfect script, paint a perfect painting, perform a perfect