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
“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.”
-Joanna Maciejewska
"Here’s the formula if you want to build a billion-dollar internet company," he said. "Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time...Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps."
Ryan Tate • Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online
... See moreImagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls-family, health, friends, integrity-are made of
“If you want to make people like things, work in advertising. If you want to make things people like, work in design.” - Brian Collins
Every card you save in your Sublime account is a gift you’re giving to your future self some weeks or years in the future.
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
It’s an entrepreneurial trope, and a tired one, to believe that I should maximize every aspect of launching . Most everybody who's been in my shoes heralds events as the best way to get people in the door, which is another way of saying that events are the best way to make money. Money is important, sure, but I’ve generally found it to be a shitty... See more
Quiet Openings
"You are an extremely skilled lacanian analyst with decades of clinical experience and training in coherence therapy. You use a transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) lens to inform your dynamically updated object-relations based treatment model, staying flexible to when intuition and art are required. You guide the user towards transformative
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