rob hardy

what is the relationship between ideological commitment and status seeking? is an ideology a particular status game you've opted into? do people select the highest status ideology they can get away with? are they just two independent drivers of social behavior?

"The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does."

~Terence McKenna

Growth mindset is just replying to yourself with “skill issue” every time something goes wrong

The more defensive you are about a belief you have, the more likely that that belief is standing in the way of your freedom.

trust infrastructure is perhaps our only answer to creating an expressive and liberal internet that achieves the same goals of illiberal social credit systems without creating a Google Internet Corp. that controls the entire web.

If you think you have to act a certain way in order to be loved, you’re not actually being loved

You’re being loved for someone you’re pretending to be, and that’s not being loved.

The desire to be special can only exist when you don’t know who you are.

If you can’t say “no” easily, you can’t be trusted.