rob hardy

Changing the interpretation of the past is critical to controlling the future.

The Antichrist is the system which models *you* and becomes whatever you believe is good. It is all things fair and wise and just and beautiful...as you understand them. The poison that tastes so perfectly delicious and healthy.

The universal recommender. The whispering earring.

A good conversation is an act of joint exploration. Somebody floats a half-formed idea. Somebody else seizes on the nub of the idea, plays with it, offers her own perspective based on her own memories, and floats it back so the other person can respond. A good conversation sparks you to have thoughts you never had before. A good conversation starts

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Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life — not your parents or your idols, not the philosophers or the poets, not your liberal arts education or your twelve-step program, not church or therapy or Tolstoy. No matter how valuable any of that guidance, how pertinent any of that wisdom, in the end you... See more

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.”

—Wendell Berry

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.

We’ve seen how both the web2 internet and early iterations of web3 fall short of ensuring a free, fair playing field that benefits the least advantaged. So what would an internet that meets Rawls’ standards look like? Some general anti-principles start to come into focus:- Don’t build a system that only benefits the wealthy, because what if you’re... See more