rob hardy

the road to recovery is paved with self-acceptance.

Often, the key to succeeding at something big is to break it into its tiniest pieces and focus on how to succeed at just one piece.

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.

The least sexy advice on behaviour change nobody wants to hear?

Lower your expectations.

We have a tendency to set goals in states of either excitement or desperation.

Which leads us to massively overestimate what we can commit to.

Especially in the beginning, prioritise ease over effectiveness.

The most effective way I've found to use Claude to get better at writing:

Paste in a bunch of chapters or articles.

It can accept ~350 pages of input, so go crazy.

Ask it which chapter or article is the best and to explain why it's the best.

Keep asking follow up questions and build a list of all the reasons it's strong. Feel free to add your own.... See more

if your work is solely driven by how people respond to it, you’ll create something popular but soulless

if it’s driven by how you feel about it, you’ll create something potent but obscure

but if your work is a dialogue between self & world, it can be both resonant & true

story is the most powerful force in the universe

it can topple entire nations without a drop of spilled blood