The Forest
- Successful platforms do not just discover what consumers want — they produce the consumers and the forms of consumer desire that they need.
from Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents by Rogers Brubaker
rob hardy added 1d ago
- most companies see their potential customers as weak, naive, and prone to addiction.
what would the world look like if companies spoke to our highest values rather than looking to make a quick profit off our base instincts...from Tweet by Jim Fanara
rob hardy added 6d 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 7d ago
- Authenticity is doing and saying what feels right to you in all moments. You have no judgement of yourself. You don’t overthink, perform, or strategize to get people to receive you in a specific way. You understand that your real tribe will stay, and the rest will fall away.
rob hardy added 8d ago
- entrepreneurship as a vehicle for individuation
rob hardy added 9d ago
- Social media is for me to find kickass thoughtful people that get something from my writing.
It is not to participate in an info war in your head or to please a mass media audience. I’m not trying to “convert” skeptics of alternative paths either.from Tweet by Paul Millerd
rob hardy added 14d ago
- A company is a cathedral built to shelter an idea that might be true.
from Tweet by Ben Orenstein
rob hardy added 1mo ago
no matter how hard we try to be humane and ethical in our small businesses, we hit a wall real fast when we’re still trying to operate within the vocabulary and architecture of conventional marketing.
from Writing With the Sword - Lesson 1 by Simone Grace Seol
rob hardy added 3mo ago