manifesto craft
notes on writing manifestos that light both yours and readers’ hearts on fire
by rob hardy · updated 8d ago
manifesto craft
- The startup is a song, not a fixed story. New movements arise, old ones fade, new harmonies join. A manifesto is great way to coalesce the current movement but it must be a living document.
from Tweet by Clint Watson
rob hardy added 8d ago
- A startup is a story The story is useful because it brings people to work towards something together The story is limiting because employees let it dictate what they can and cannot do The story isn't real - a startup is just people and what they choose to do every morning
rob hardy added 8d ago
Caught in a contradiction, playing both despot and revolutionary, artist and critic, “straight man” and clown, the manifesto writer must persevere. The secret to this perseverance is drama. The theater of the absurd. You build a little self-contained world and invite the audience in. Describe this world in detail. Don’t be afraid to make it enterta
... See morefrom The Manifesto Handbook by Julian Hanna
rob hardy added 9d ago
- Demons must be named to be defeated, just as our deepest and most vile urges or emotions must be acknowledged to be integrated
from Tweet by Θωμᾶς del Vasto (soul/acc)
rob hardy added 11d ago
- I couldn’t quit smoking until I convinced myself that smoking was for losers.
Wasn’t enough to “want” to quit. I had to actively disdain it in an over the top way.
After the identity-belief changed, the rest was (relatively) easy.
Aaron Francisfrom Tweet by Nathan Baschez
rob hardy added 11d ago
- When you make something for someone else, you get glimpses. When you make something for you, you get goosebumps.
from Tweet by Jason Fried
rob hardy added 13d ago
- Changing the interpretation of the past is critical to controlling the future.
from Tweet by Benjamin Life
rob hardy added 17d ago
“Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.” -Ken Wilber
rob hardy added 1mo ago
- “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing” - Ben Franklin
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