rob hardy

your worst sin is that you’ve formed opinions not from careful reflection on lived experience, but from the assertions of others

“When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.”

— Zhuangzi

"Artifacts of humanity" in creative work — in the form of dust, mistakes, and deliberate strokes that flex human engagement — will showcase the human labor spent making a creation. Such artifacts of humanity, alongside Content Credentials that factually articulate how a piece of work was made, will add meaning and scarcity to the work in the eyes... See more

The person you become through creating is infinitely more valuable than whatever you actually create.

all the above “tools”, including (i) shared culture (ii) contract law (iii) markets and (iv) TTPs should all fall under the moniker of “trust infrastructure”. It’s just that in the case of contract law, markets and TTPs, these tools build trustless relationships that make human cooperation scalable beyond our local communities.

Your sanity depends on you finding the comedy in the chaos

Dear Future Self,

I'm no longer trying to become you.

Not because I've given up,

But because I finally understand:

You emerge from how gently I hold this moment,

Not from how fiercely I chase the next one.