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
In a word, we’ve struggled for two years to find someone with taste—with an eye for what stands the chance of being interesting, entertaining, or useful to an audience.
We’re not alone. I’ve talked to authors, podcasters, documentarians, late-night TV writers, YouTubers and TikTokers, and they all share this problem. Most of these creators are
... See morefrom The Cup of Coffee Theory of AI by Billy Oppenheimer
“If you want to make people like things, work in advertising. If you want to make things people like, work in design.” - Brian Collins
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Buckminster Fuller
- The desire for fulfilling work — a job that provides a deep sense of purpose, and reflects our values, passions and personality — is a modern invention. … For centuries, most inhabitants of the Western world were too busy struggling to meet their subsistence needs to worry about whether they had an exciting career that used their talents and nurtur... See more
from How to Find Fulfilling Work by Maria Popova
- Solve a problem you have yourself, then sell the solution. ~Dan Koe Source: https://youtu.be/GmHQGVD7KRQ?si=S27LWzhIApJ8iEzW
“What we do for ourselves dies with us when we leave this planet. What we do for other people can live on forever.” ~Sir Ken Robinson
To make your mind more innovative, you have to place it inside environments that share that same network signature:
networks of ideas or people that mimic the neural networks of a mind exploring the adjacent possible.
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Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From
Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators
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On why curation is valuable.
