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
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
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Great overview of the impact of AI generated results showing up at the top of search results, and the current push of Google, ChatGPT search, and Perplexity to push away and bury links to any websites. SEO and the old way of searching is dying right before our eyes.
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
my cheesy oversimplification that i do think is true is that ultimately marketing is simply about publicly being in love with the problem-space that you’re operating in. your product, sure, but why did you make the product? because you cared about the problem, right? show us!!
Visakan Veerasamyx.com“In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”
-Kwame Anthony Appiah
I believe that we can build something that offers people a chance to participate in these new types of experiences, punctuated by silence and other opportunities for reflection. And they must be offered—because they no longer emerge naturally in the world that we live in. In other words, people don’t naturally fall into them or opt-in to them. They... See more
Luke Burgis • The Case for Silence
This makes me think of the benefits of creating offline, unplugged experiences for people who find themselves extremely online all the time.
... See more“Ken—” said Bob.
“Yes?” said Ken.
“What’s the greatest thing you learned after all your time working with Gene?”
“Gene” is Eugene Schwartz, widely considered one of the best direct-response copywriters of the twentieth century.
“Ken” is internet marketing pioneer Ken McCarthy.
“Bob” is prolific copywriter Bob Bly. He’s moderating a panel of copywriters,
Digital platforms used to bring our physical lives online, but now that we have uniquely digital experiences and relationships, we don’t have products that let us successfully bring those offline.