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
... See moreYou are your own worst enemy. You waste precious time dreaming of the future instead of engaging in the present. Since nothing seems urgent to you, you are only half involved in what you do. The only way to change is through action and outside pressure. Put yourself in situations where you have too much at stake to waste time or resources--if you
when physical labor became optional we invented the gym. we’ll need the same thing for the mind
runaway_volx.comI'm really inspired by also how they were really quiet for a really long time at the beginning. They were not trying to become the next new success story on the pages of every paper. They were much more just like, "We're just going to prove through the quality of our output over time that we are doing something interesting, and weird, and... See more
Camille Ricketts: Former Head of Marketing at Notion
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
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either of them.
-Russian proverb
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?
Housing is one of the most important, most expensive things that humans need.
An estimated 1.6 billion people - one-fifth of humanity - lack access to adequate housing and basic services, according to a recent report by the UN in 2024.
Existing attempts to solve the housing crisis have failed to solve the problem. Approaches meant to solve the
... See moreYou're alive in inverse proportion to the density of cliches in your writing — Nassim Nicholas Taleb