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.

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The only productive way to answer ‘What should I do now?’ is to first tackle the question of ‘Who should I become?' Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living

Life Path Advice

I’ve finally realized why I’ve never been a fan of focusing just on productivity without focusing on other things as well.

Productivity is a natural outcome that happens when you have a deep purpose. When you have a deep purpose, you naturally come up with clear priorities to work on.

When you have a deep purpose and clear priorities, you become

Anti-productivity

Stop asking yourself what you want, what you desire, what interests you. Ask yourself instead, “what has been given to me?” Ask, “What do I have to give back?” Then act.
-Cheryl Strayed

Life Path Advice

We create more than ever, but it weighs nothing.
AI now promises results without the reckoning, but frictionless creation leads to weightless rewards. No one dreams of merely pushing a button to generate their magnum opus. The output matters, but the intention, the struggle, the care is what makes it count — what gives it weight…
Weight is tangible

Of Analog and Offline Things

One of the greatest tragedies of modern technology is entire generations afraid to sit with their own thoughts.

Bryce Roberts x.com

Of Analog and Offline Things

This efficient pursuit of predictable value is the quiet dignity of the mass of working people. But if we are to solve the bigger structural, spiritual, and intellectual problems which aren’t addressed by existing institutions, someone needs to be exploring off of the established road, where there is a high probability of failing to accomplish... See more

Wolf Tivy • Quit Your Job

Life Path Advice

This rant via Shalom Auslander

I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light

Great Rants

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

Creating A Better Internet Experience

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.
-David Olgilvy

Creativity and Business Advice