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
On Being a Good Newsletterer
craigmod.com
The fundamental message of marketing must change from "we want your money" to "we share your interests".
Jeff Jarvis • WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO
Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
-James Joyce
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain
“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”
Jim Carrey • A quote by Jim Carrey
The end of a melody is not its goal.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Stop whatever you are doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won’t get to do this anymore?
-Marcus Aurelius
... See moreWe 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
I'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