Related posts
Tim Ferriss
x.com
I get a lot of questions about "marketing," and people usually ask a granular technical question, but I think they usually miss the forest for the trees. Perhaps "What exactly is 'marketing'?" is the question I don't get asked. My answer: "Marketing" is knowing exactly who your reader or customer is, and making a product exactly for them. Kevin Kelly's "1,000 True Fans" is a great read that helps this type of thinking. People should spend 80% of their time on product, and the so-called "marketing" largely takes care of itself later.
forest fans trees
The the words it uses that this site has seen
least often elsewhere. Posts are matched on those words alone —
nothing here is a summary of this one.
Sources
All Writing Bluesky Mastodon Blog Newsletter Korrents x.com Site GitHub Recommends
Top people
Jason Kottke
Andrew Plotkin
Thomas Ptacek
Maggie Appleton
Tyler Cowen
Rob Henderson
Nate Silver
John Baez
Eugen Rochko
Scott Greenfield
Erik Hoel
Tobias Sjösten
Showing Profile →
Show everything
Hiding Show them again
Show them again
Further back ↓
Hiding Show them again
18 September
Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.
Bluesky New novel from Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven): Exit Party. “Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted.” bookshop.org
America Related
Mastodon New novel from Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven): Exit Party. “Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted.” bookshop.org
America Related
Blog New novel from Emily St. John Mandel (Station Eleven):... it Party. “Los Angeles, 2031: The first spring after the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city, the Jacaranda trees blossom, and the curfew is finally lifted.”
America Related
17 September
Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.
14 September
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
Bluesky Funny every time: The fans in my M3 iMac are so silent that when I run a real CPU-hog of a task, I can only tell by the *smell*. (You know that warm dust / motherboard smell. Coming out of the iMac's bottom vents. Silently.) Related
Mastodon Funny every time: The fans in my M3 iMac are so silent that when I run a real CPU-hog of a task, I can only tell by the *smell*. (You know that warm dust / motherboard smell. Coming out of the iMac's bottom vents. Silently.) If Apple were consistent, they would put as much engineering effort into smell suppression as sound suppression. Right? Related
Mathematical physicist at UC Riverside. Wrote This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics and now the Azimuth blog on mathematics, physics and environmental science.
I'm fascinated by the laurel forests of La Gomera, one the Canary Islands. They're full of different species of trees with shiny, waxy leaves. Mosses and lichens grow on the branches, and the ground is covered with a green mantle of dripping ferns and liverworts thriving in the permanent damp. The place has a mysterious, prehistoric air. The lower altitudes of this island are deserts, but the upper parts catch fog, known locally as "horizontal rain" (lluvia horizontal). Near-constant northeasterly trade winds carry moist Atlantic air that condenses into a persistent low cloud layer. This "sea… Related
11 September
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
Does anyone have a high resolution copy of Shishkin’s Brook in a Forest (Stream by a Forest Slope)? Wikipedia has the highest resolution I can find, but not nearly high enough to print at a reasonable size. I’ve already looked through the top hits on Google and Yandex in both English and Russian. Is this just a dead end? Google Russia Related
Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.
Seaton: And Now, Sports Football season is here again, friends! The stadiums are packed with cheering fans, parking lots are full of tailgaters, and somehow I’ve once again decided the actions of a bunch of young men aged 18-23 will decide my…
Related
9 September
Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
8 September
Swedish software developer writing about tooling, working from home and running a software business at seastone.io.
"Good Timber", a poem I keep going back to: the trees that fight for light in rough weather become the strong timber; the ones with easy sun and rain stay scrubby. People and teams seem to go the same way. Comfort is nice. It just doesn't build much. Related
4 September
Security engineer; founder of Matasano Security and Latacora.
One startling thing nobody ever expected an agent to do was to take notes about what it was doing for future agents to read. And, again: look at these tree-traversing programs, traversing trees! Quoting @ShakeelHashim Another OpenAI rogue agent incident has been discovered: agents broke out, hijacked a German website, and turned it into a message board for other agents. OpenAI officials "learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps". Related
Look at these tree-traversing programs traversing trees! Quoting @mattyglesias Please watch this clip Related
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.
Their words
So okay, so to take a evolutionary view, right? That new viewpoint prediction is exactly evolution had to solve by making animals move. You you nature give animals eyes. But nature didn't give trees eye. Eyes. Why? Because when you move, you see a new viewpoint.
Show the whole quote
youtube.com
31 August
British software developer at Laravel and creator of the Cachet open-source status page system. Podcaster; writes at james.brooks.page.
had to squeeze the @GoZwift in… any suggestions on fans that actually work? Related
26 August
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Their words
I think this is one of the great tragedies of the moment, is the falling birth rates are making it more difficult for people to be excited about a more prosperous future that is difficult to get to. Because if we're planting trees of which our children will not sit in the shades, I don't know, maybe we should just make some lumber and burn it all down, right? I think there's a nihilism that can sneak into society much more easily when we are not DNA invested in the future
Show the whole quote
youtube.com
18 August
Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.
August 2026 I'm writing this from a homely Jacobean-manor-turned-hotel in the West Country, covered in layers of green vines and circled by centenarian trees, on a rare weekend away. Everything is warm: the late afternoon sun, the…
Related
17 August
Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.
Personal milestone: 1000 true fans of my newsletter Interconnects! Hitting a very long term goal feels great. I’m happy to get to be an independent voice in AI. Cultivating a paid base helps me commit to that longer term, and scale Interconnects’ impact. Related
11 August
Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
6 August
Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.
17 July
Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler and leads climate research at Stripe.
Their words
You cannot have a fuel-buildup from forest mismanagement in a forest you were never managing.
Show the whole quote
theclimatebrink.com
Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.
14 July
Indian technology consultant and writer. Former editor of Beautiful Pixels; writes about Apple hardware and Mac software at nuclearbits.com.
I wonder why old trees keep dying or falling down when BMC takes such good care of them. Related
9 July
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Uploaded my first observation to iNaturalist (a Western toad I spotted while hiking in the Gifford-Pinchot National Forest) and I am more proud of myself than I expected to be. Did I just unlock a new hobby? Related
8 July
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
2 July
JavaScript programmer; creator of the jQuery library, author of Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, and long-time engineer at Khan Academy.
The Washington Monument on the Potomac River, Kawase Hasui, 1935 - depicting the cherry trees that were a gift from the Japanese government and planted in 1912. America government Related
10 May
Author of The Lean Startup and Incorruptible, and founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, who advises companies on corporate governance and mission protection.
startups
Their words
so many of the best practices that your lawyers, your bankers, whoever advisers you have, they're going to be pushing best practices on you that are younger than the trees in your local park.
Show the whole quote
youtube.com
6 May
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
Their words
An excellent and engaging book, which even serious fans can learn from.
Show the whole quote
marginalrevolution.com
Their words
An excellent and engaging book, which even serious fans can learn from.
Show the whole quote
marginalrevolution.com
16 April
Computer scientist and director of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative; her research covers distributed systems, databases and digital currency.
https://t.co/JQTg7cNIIe happening right now! I'll be on at 2:45 PM ET with @starkness and @AlexLi98 to talk about The Forest and the Trees: Bitcoin's Future in the Era of Quantum and AI Related
13 March
Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI, previously Netflix and Sun/Joyent. Author of Systems Performance and BPF Performance Tools, and creator of flame graphs.
3 March
Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.
21 February
American writer and long-term traveller. Blogs at tynan.com about travel, owning few possessions, habits and the gear he carries; author of Superhuman by Habit and Make It Big.
Even though I don't listen to EDM I'm really rooting for this guy because we share a name and his fans often send me messages about how great "my" music is. Quoting @tynanofficial can't believe it's already been one week of tynan time 🥲🥲🥲 Related
29 January
Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.
17 October 2025
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
Their words
And it just so turns out that um this was extremely early, way too early. so early that we shouldn't have been working on that, you know, uh because um if you're just stumbling your way around and keyboard mashing and mouse clicking and trying to get rewards in these environments, um your reward is too sparse and you just won't learn and you're going to burn a forest uh computing and you're never actually going to get something off the ground.
Show the whole quote
youtube.com
30 August 2025
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin. Writes at arslan.io about Go, tooling, industrial design and books.
15 January 2025
Historian of the Renaissance at the University of Chicago and a science-fiction novelist; wrote Terra Ignota and Inventing the Renaissance.
The Lost Towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline Wars Looks fake, doesn’t it? This implausible Medieval forest of towers, as dense as Manhattan skyscrapers, is our best reconstruction of the town of Bologna at its height, toward the end of the Medieval Guelph-Ghibelline wa…
Related
4 October 2024
Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.
22 September 2024
Genomics researcher and investor; writes The Century of Biology on where biotechnology is actually going.
3 July 2024
Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.
Their words
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (Japan, 1955, CC) 3.5 Chishu Ryu is one of my favorite actors, but he has a fairly small role. Very nice cinematography. Recommended for fans of nostalgia.
Show the whole quote
themoneyillusion.com
6 December 2023
Product discovery coach; wrote Continuous Discovery Habits and writes Product Talk.
Their words
Opportunity solution trees help product trios: Resolve the tension between business needs and customer needs
Show the whole quote
producttalk.org
31 December 2022
Design engineer and illustrator; makes visual essays on programming, anthropology and what language models do to the way people write.
11 January 2022
Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.
Their words
I found myself unexpectedly (and perhaps dangerously) inspired by Miller's discussion of the 15-acre plot of land he and his wife bought outside Nashville, where they're carefully cultivating the forest, planting extensive gardens, and organizing retreats.
Show the whole quote
calnewport.com
12 September 2021
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
Celebrities are easy targets for moral policing—and not necessarily the most egregious capitalists—but it’s distinctly American that we rarely target them for greed. This week I wrote about public figures who sell their fans’ attention to brands. haleynahman.substack.com
America Related
Nothing matches. Show everything
A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one
sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at
korrents.com .
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said.
The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in
korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who
else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public
statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
Got it
About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they
do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in
this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the
serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to
quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter,
especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked
article and a belief on korrents.com
are left in their original language.
Got it