rob hardy

@robhardy

writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱

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“Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself…. His task was to discover his own destiny — not an arbitrary one — and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own

self renewal and

there is only one sin and it's refusing to accept feedback from reality

rob hardy • Tweet

conversational creativity and

“A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or a class than one that has been able to situate itself in history.” - John Berger

tomcritchlow.com • Ways of Seeing

manifesto craft and

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.

Shane Copeland on Substack

self renewal and recovery

"The ‘wear them down with pressure and scarcity tactics’ approach to sales and marketing is only relevant if you are trying to undermine people’s ability to make decisions for themselves." - Megan Macedo

trust and non-coercive marketing

We’re in a weird era for startups where perception has become the moat. Raise early, get labeled a “category leader,” and that perception attracts capital, customers, and talent until it’s no longer perception. The irony is many kings were crowned long before they’d earned it.

Hadley x.com

brand manifesto and

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

― Henry David Thoreau

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everything is a conversation

When drawing, the trick is to spend more time looking at the thing you are trying to draw than at your picture. This is true for writing, too.

Bruce Kasanoff • Henrik Karlsson on Substack

recovery and

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight

what even is perfectionism?? and perfectionism is power